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Ah, hello, my dear, happy to see you. What's that?
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Oh no, just another dark, cold evening. Not much more
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to say than that, I suppose, while I should know better,
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Sometimes I swear there are nights darker and colder than others.
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But I suppose putting the kettle on and getting the
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fire roaring or just might turn this night around. Please
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please get comfortable. I'm sorry, I'm not in much of
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a entertaining mood, I suppose, I swear tonight I feel
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almost curse, almost as if someone has given me the
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evil eye.
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Come in, welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Evil exists.
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We all agree on that only I mean, we read
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about it here, of it, sometimes witness it, even if
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we are that unfortunate have it done to ourselves?
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But what is it?
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The Dictionary defines evil as anything impairing happiness or welfare,
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or depriving of good. If we accept, at least for now,
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this definition, then who of us, in the course of
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a lifetime has not done evil or darkly thought of
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doing it. I'm waiting who.
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Anyone can do it? I can't. Don't be silly, of
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course you can, But how first you.
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Have to believe you can do it, and then then
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why then you go ahead.
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And do it.
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Our mystery drama The Evil Eye was written especially for
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the Mystery Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Mendel Kramer
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and Carol Titell. I'll be back shortly with that one.
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I intimated at.
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The start that this is to be a story of evil,
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and before long you will realize that I did not exaggerate. Cheating, lying, stealing.
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Such things a commonplace. We read about them daily. Then
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there is betrayal, slander, perjury.
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Oh, the number is endless. And what is worse? All
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lurk in every human heart.
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Listen to the words of Bles Pascal, who lived and
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wrote more than three hundred years ago. Evil is easy
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and has infinite forms.
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It's a terrible thing being a woman.
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The only thing that's worse is being a successful woman.
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You've heard of me.
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I'm sure, Charity Ormsby, you've certainly read one of my books.
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More likely you've read them all. I'm the best known
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female writer in the country. Of course, few know that
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my real name is Louise Bates, married nearly twenty years
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to John Bates, mother of two, both boys, both thanks
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the Lord away at school.
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At any rate.
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When the events I am about to relate came about,
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there was no one in the house but John and myself.
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It is.
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Louise, it's me John.
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Oh, yes, come in, come in.
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Good morning, dear.
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Oh, I've waked up to better ones.
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Rot you some coffee.
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What time is it?
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That's a little early, But I have to get to
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the office. You know, income tax time is coming up.
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Everybody wants their returns. So I thought before I left,
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I bring you your coffee? Would you like me to
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pour it?
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I guess so.
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Oh, I was sleeping so soundly, as.
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Though I were in my tool depressed by you.
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Yeah, here's your coffee.
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Oh, thank you your pork cup.
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As soon as you get back to work. I suppose
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you always do. I do don't always. Well, I really
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should be getting started.
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It's a dreadful Hiatis between two books that gets me down,
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the feeling that it's.
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All over, that my talent is all used up.
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I'll never right again if I have another idea.
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I can't imagine how depressing it is.
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No, I guess I can't.
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Ah, you're lucky to be an accountant, John, am.
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I yes, I suppose in some ways I am speaking
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of which I really better get doing.
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Oh, oh will you answer that for me?
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Will you do all right?
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Hello?
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Is miss Armsby there?
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Yes, yeah, she's here?
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Or should I say missus Bates?
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Is this mister Bates?
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Yes? It is?
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Is this Kathy?
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Oh? Yes, how are you Miss Cargan?
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Oh?
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You know?
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Can I think with your wife?
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Well?
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Can you?
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Can you hold on miss Cargan and I'll see if
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she's able to talk.
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I'll hold on.
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It's your agent, so I gather it.
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Can you talk to her?
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I can try.
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Oh, don't go just yet, John, I need support.
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Well, it's hello, Kathy.
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I was just wondering if you're working.
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No, no, I'm not right.
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When do you think you will be the weis?
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Oh?
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For heaven's sake, Kathy, don't you know anything about my
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habits after all these years?
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No?
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I know you didn't.
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You didn't think at all?
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No, perfectly.
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Well, I can't.
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Put a word on paper until the whole thing suddenly
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takes shape in my mind.
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So that happens, I'm helpless as a baby.
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When do you think something will take shape?
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Oh?
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How do I know?
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I can't plan to have it take shape? You know
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I can't command it to take shape. I can't just
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trick it, or or seduce it, or bribe it.
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I can't.
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I understand.
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Well, then why do you insist thought?
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You might like to know that Anita Barlow has just
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been given a million dollar advance?
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What on her next book?
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Anita Barlow got a million dollar advance?
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Yes she did, thanks for calling? How about that?
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How about that that overdressed, overblown that no talent for
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Anita Barlow has just no.
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I know, I heard a million dollars. A million dollars.
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You're better than she is, Louise, You're much better.
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I know that I'm better.
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I know that you're the best.
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Louise know I'm the best.
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But do those income poop publishers know it?
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No? All they know is Benita Barlow, Benita Barlow.
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So she gets all the.
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Advertising, she gets the interview, she gets all the fanfare,
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all the roops you do.
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I could kill that woman's not doing you don't mean that.
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I mean that I could kill her. Trouble is she's
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in England and I'm here. Then it happened.
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The idea for my next book sprang into my head,
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full blown, the way it had always done before. Oh oh,
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What a joy, What a relief after months of sterility,
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I was, I need to write again. In ten days,
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my public would have what they awaited. So breathlessly I
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could scarcely wait to tell John, it'll be all about
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a beautiful black woman and a white man, and they're
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enduring love for each other.
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Do we know any black women, Louise.
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Oh, that's beside the point. I can santisize it. You
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can satisize anything.
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Of course.
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I shall call it a dark cluster, good title.
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All right, Now, John, you.
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Know what you have to do. I must have ten
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full days to complete it. I shall shut myself in
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my room. Now you know how it goes. We've been
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through this before. Yes, Now you'll stay home. You have
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to cut your own meat.
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You eat them by yourself.
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Yes, you will sit by the window the way you
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always have to stop anyone who comes to the door.
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Now you will have to.
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Hold the phone in your lap so you can answer
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it the second it starts to ring.
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And if that.
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Dog down the block starts to box, you will silence it.
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And if the people next door play there was awful records,
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you will make them stop.
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Oh it will be heavenly.
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Shall I answer it?
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No, I'll take it this one last time, the last
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call I take for ten the least days. Hello, Louise,
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this is Kathy, Kathy, Kathy.
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The most beautiful thing has happened.
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Sweet.
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I am starting a new book.
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You're the last person I'll speak to for ten whole days.
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Then you will have the completed manuscript.
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It's going to be called Dark Luster.
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Have you heard about Banita Barlow?
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It's all about this week.
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Huh.
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Anita Barlow is very ill, very very ill.
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Oh it is.
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It's a very rare disease.
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It's always fatal.
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She can't live.
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Mo Is that?
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So? I just thought I should tell you, well.
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I'd like.
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In ten days precisely.
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Huh. Banita Barrows come down with some strange sort of disease.
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It's terminal. The news about Benita Barler made hardly any
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impression on.
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Me at all.
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The concept for my new novel was burgeoning within me,
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and I could scarcely wait.
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To begin again.
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I wrote feverishly. The words leapt onto the page. My
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fingers could barely keep up at the racing of my brains.
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For nine full days, I wrote, only taking time for
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an hour or to.
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Sleep here and there. Now and then, and even as
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I slept.
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The words, the words, the blessed words, ran pell mell
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through my mind. Then, on the tenth day, to stop
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the pain on the door, John John's are pretty safe
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when you make it stop.
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Your home, John John.
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When you make him go away, John, go to the door,
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John a shop.
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When the world is bad, You you down there, you
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at the door, when you go away.
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You are doing a terrible thing. You are interrupting an
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act of creation. You are a dreadful, ignorant person, a desecrator.
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Of vandal, a protainer on the order of art.
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I help you, dreadful man.
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You don't deserve to live.
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I slam down the window, trembling with rage, that creak,
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that ignorant, selfish, stubborn creep.
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I crawled into my.
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Big, comforting easy chair, who curled myself into a ball,
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and huddled there, cursing him and shivering as though I'd
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been slitting with a fever.
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I was exhausted, drained. After a while I heard the
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outside door open. Who could it be but John, my loyal,
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devoted husband, who had promised to defend me against such intrusions.
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Shaking with anger, I went downstairs. John was just coming in.
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And where where, if you will be so kind as
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to tell me, have you.
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Been Why at the office, Louis at the.
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At the office.
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While I was draining the blood from my veins to
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finish my novel, my masterpiece, while I was forty pages
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from the ending, you.
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Were at the office.
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Well, there was so much work to do.
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Work you call what you do work.
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Well, you know very well that for these ten days
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your work was here to silence the phone, to drive
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away callers, to keep that dog from barking, to make
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those people stop playing their dreads rock and roll. Well,
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you know what you've done, now, don't you, Luise, You
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have ruined my novel.
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That's what you've done. It's dead, it's finished, it's over.
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I am going upstairs and tear it to friends.
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Then I shall burn it.
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Writers are indeed strange creatures, with strange habits of work.
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What suits one will not do for another.
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Some write long hand, others type, Some work early in
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the morning, others only.
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Late at night.
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Some paste a floor, others sit and meditate. Some compose rapidly,
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others with infinite slowness. Yes, a strange quite as strange
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as the rest of us.
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I'll be back shortly without.
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And have you driven at night past houses lighted from within,
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perhaps rightly enough to make visible the figures of the inhabitants.
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Have you tried to imagine what they were doing.
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What they were saying or not saying, what they were.
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Feeling or not feeling.
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I wonder what you would have imagined had you seen
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the persons of John and Louise Bates as they confronted
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each other on a certain singular night. I'm John Baths,
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and I know I shouldn't have done what I did,
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But I got so bored, so unutterably bored, just sitting
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on the front window seat, holding a phone in my hands,
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listening from music from next door or the sound of
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a dog barking down the block. I wasn't away for
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more than a half hour, maybe not that long.
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And when I.
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Returned, I let myself into the house as quietly as possible.
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And where where, if you will be so kind as
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to tell me, have.
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You been Why at the office? Louise?
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While I was draining the blood from my veins, you
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were at the office. You know what you've done with
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your trip to the office, don't you?
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You've killed my novel.
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It's dead, it's finished, it's over.
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I am going upstairs and tear it to Fred's. Then
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I shall burn it.
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Louise, Louise, don't do that. Don't do anything while you're
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upset like this.
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Now tell me what happened.
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Happened was that some idiot came to the door and
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banged on it, banged and banged and banged. I was
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forty pages away from finishing my book, and this monstrous
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little man marched up our front steps and stood at
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our front door and banged on it. What you want,
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do I know what he wanted to come into the house.
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I suppose you didn't let him in.
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Let him in.
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I opened the window and I shouted at him.
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I told him at.
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The top of my voice that he was desecrating the
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temple of Art. If he was an ignorant clod and
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a terrible man who shouldn't be allowed to live. Then
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I slammed down the window and I waited for.
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You to show up.
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And now now that it's too late, here you are.
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I'm sorry, Louise, now and going upstairs and.
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Destroy my not wait wait, wait, wait a minute, what did.
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This man look like? The one who came to the door.
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How should I know?
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I could see was the top of his head? Oh
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he had he had red hair. I remember that, long
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red hair down to his shoulders.
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Disgusting.
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Might have been Stephen Bennett.
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Who Stephen Bennett?
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I do his income? Text?
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Well?
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I hope they soak him plenty. He destroyed my work.
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Now I am going upstairs. Do you want me to
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answer that? No, no, it's too late. I'll answer it.
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Yes.
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Hello, Oh you No, No, not well at all?
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Nothing's going well?
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No has that?
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Oh well thanks for telling me.
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Not that it matters, but thanks. Anyway, that was Kathy Carrigan.
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Oh what did she want?
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Just to tell me Anita Barlow is dead? You know what, John,
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Maybe I won't destroy my book after all.
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I lied to Louisa when I said I went to
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the office.
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I didn't. I was with a girl. Yes, a girl.
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I've been seeing her for quite a while. I felt
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guilty as hell about it, but I couldn't help myself.
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I'm in love with her, and I think she's in
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love with me, and sometimes it's hard to tell.
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Anyway. After Louise decided not to tear.
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Up her novel, I stayed around the house for a
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couple of days, just to make sure that you know
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that she was all right.
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Then I went to see this girl. I had to Kathy,
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I don't know what's going on at home with Louise.
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You mean, of course Louise, Louise will home to you.
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Well, of course I'm married to her.
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I see, Okay, go on, Kathy.
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When you called and told her that Benita Barlow was dead,
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she decided not to tear up her novel.
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Was she going to do that?
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Yes?
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I mean you don't know about Stephen Bennett there, never
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heard of it.
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Well, he's a client of mine.
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It seems that he tried to see me in my
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office and I wasn't there.
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Because you know, because you were here.
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That's right.
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Stephen Bennett was trying to see me because he was
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worried about his taxes, among other things.
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I mean, he'd given me some false.
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Figures and he was afraid that he was going to
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be found out, and he wanted my help.
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I wasn't at the office, so.
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He went to my house and Louise was almost finished
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with her novel. There was even an out of order
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sign above the doorbell.
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I mean I put it there myself. So he started
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banging on the door.
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I mean, the man was really desperate, and Louise leaned
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out the window and she hollered at him. I mean,
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she told me all this herself, called him an ignorant
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clod and a terrible man, you know, stuff like that,
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and I guess he just finally gave up and went away.
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Yeah, no, I can't.
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It's in the paper this morning. Steve Bennett is dead.
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He took an overdose of something and he's dead.
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Well, I'm sorry about that, but after all he Isn't
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it a close friend or.
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Anything like that.
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No, but I mean, you know, if I'd been in
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my office or even at home where I was supposed
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to be, maybe he wouldn't have done it.
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Oh nonsense.
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I mean I was here with you.
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Where you were or weren't, had nothing to do with
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what happened was my fault. You stopped taking credit for
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something you couldn't help.
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You're just being arrogant, arrogant me, it's.
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It's Louise, Louise.
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What about Louise first, Benita bar alone.
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Now that Stephen Bennett both did.
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But Louise didn't know either one of them.
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That doesn't mean a thing not when you have the
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capacity for evil. The evil eye what I'm sure you've
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heard that.
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That's the eagle eye.
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I've heard of it. But I mean, but what is it?
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I mean?
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It is the power to destroy whatever stands in your way.
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Oh no, I'm yes, yes, ket you mean Louise?
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Can you mean she can destroy people?
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Well?
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She has done it, hasn't she.
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On purpose?
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I don't know. I don't know precisely how it works.
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I wish I did.
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But what do I I mean, what am I supposed
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to do?
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I'm not sure? Let me think.
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I mean, what if she decides to destroy me?
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Oh?
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You, that is what I'm thinking about. Look, John, you
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said she didn't destroy her.
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Books right after you called about Anita Barlow. She said
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maybe she wouldn't.
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You have got to insist that she finished it him,
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since she must have felt such a great surge of
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power when she heard about Anita Barlow. Can you tell
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her about Stephen Bennett? If we can direct all that
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psychic energy into her work, if she'll finish the books,
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who knows, who knows what might happen?
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I can tell you my head was in a whirld.
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My wife had the evil eye Louise. Louise had the
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evil eye, the power to do away with people if
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she didn't like them, if they interfered with her.
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I mean, well, it just seemed absurd, impossible.
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Still, Benita to borrow and Stephen Bennett. I mean, it
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did seem so you know, so on and really horrible.
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But Cathy had said there might be hope if I
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could persuade Louise to finish her novel.
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Insist on it, she said me, insist.
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I've never insisted on anything in my whole life.
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Still I could try it, Louise. You you didn't tear
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up your novel, did you not. Yes, well, don't do it, Louise.
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It's mine to do with whatever I can.
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I prefer not to discuss it, John, if you don't mind.
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But I do mind.
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I think we have to.
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Talk about there's nothing to talk about. If my novel
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stays unfinished, it's your fault. Remember that if you had
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stayed where you belonged and protected me from the outside
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world in the full day, that novel would have been completed.
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But no, no, you had to run after your stupid
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little office, and that stupid little man ste whoever he was,
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he interrupted my concentration, and he ruined the whole thing.
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He's dead, Louise, Oh, is he yes? He took an
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overdose of something and he's dead.
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Was he a friend of yours?
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Well, he was a client.
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You seem so upsets.
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Well, he came here looking for me. If you had been,
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if you had let him in.
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What are you getting.
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At, John? Are you trying to tell me it's my fault?
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The man overdosed himself.
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I don't think you know how powerful you are, Louise.
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I'm only powerful if you're here to protect me.
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I can't be here all the time.
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No one's asking you to be here all the time.
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Ten days out of a whole year, you call that
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all the time.
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Please finished the book, Louise, I mean, if you don't,
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If I don't, what.
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You remember? Benita Barlaw?
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Not English woman? What about her?
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She died?
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Oh?
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Anita Barlow died of some mysterious disease.
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I didn't know her. I've never even met her.
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She was your rival. Right here in this very room.
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I heard you say it. You said I could kill her.
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He said it twice, Louise. I was right here, right
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here with you when you said it, I could kill her.
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You said that doesn't.
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Mean I did. How could I not not?
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If you have the evil eyes?
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What's that? What's the evil eye?
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It's the power to hurt people just by wanting to
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hurt them, even people.
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You don't know, even people who lived thousands of miles away.
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Do you think that that I have this power?
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I think maybe you haven't, and I'm afraid of it. Louis,
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I couldn't tell whether I was making any impression on
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her or not.
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After all, I didn't really know what I was talking about.
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I just put words together and hoped that they would
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make sense.
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They sounded all right when I.
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Said them, but I couldn't tell what effect they were
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having on my wife. For her, her dark eyes open
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wider and wider.
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Her cheeks got paler and paler. She walked out of
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the room without answering me.
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I waited downstairs, hoping to hear the sound of the typewriter,
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but I heard nothing.
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Is that you, John?
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Yes, come in here, will you right away?
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Did you have a hard day?
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Well, you know, it's income tax time. Everybody's kind of anxious.
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Yes, that's what I am.
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Anxious, Terribly terribly anxious, agonizingly anxious.
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Well, realizingly anxious.
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Maybe if you were to, you know, finish your book.
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I try, I try.
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I sit there in front of the typewriter and I
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stare at it.
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I sit and I spare.
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But I can't even put my fingers on the keys.
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I can't even miss my hands to put the paper
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in the roller. But I do try.
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M Maybe it doesn't sound like it, but I do try. Really,51300:26:44.839 --> 00:26:50.640
I do. Really, I do believe me. You you do51400:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.400
believe me, don't you, Louise?51500:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.839
If you would just say to yourself, I can do it,51600:26:57.799 --> 00:26:59.079
and I will do it.51700:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.359
I can, I will.51800:27:02.440 --> 00:27:05.279
That's all you need, the power and the window, the51900:27:05.319 --> 00:27:07.559
power and the will.52000:27:07.599 --> 00:27:12.119
That's all I could try again, of course you could.52100:27:14.400 --> 00:27:14.519
Oh.52200:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.480
By the way, Louise, coming home, I stopped to talk52300:27:16.519 --> 00:27:17.960
to the people down the block, you know, the one52400:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.440
with the dog.52500:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.440
He died.52600:27:20.839 --> 00:27:24.200
The dog died. The people said it was you know,52700:27:24.279 --> 00:27:26.359
old age. He just laid down in the sun and52800:27:26.400 --> 00:27:26.799
he died.52900:27:26.920 --> 00:27:28.559
The dog died.53000:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.440
Yes. And you know the couple next.53100:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.359
Door, the ones with all that rock and roll all the.53200:27:33.319 --> 00:27:41.039
Time, they're getting a divorce. The second I stopped talking,53300:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.599
Louise gave me a peculiar look. Then she got up53400:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.400
and left the room. She went upstairs. I really didn't53500:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.119
know what I'd said to make her do that, but53600:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.960
a minute later I heard something that made me not53700:27:55.079 --> 00:28:07.839
happy exactly, but very very relieved. You remember what I53800:28:07.960 --> 00:28:10.440
quoted you towards the beginning of our show, the words53900:28:10.440 --> 00:28:11.279
of Bles Pascal.54000:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.039
Evil is easy and has infinite forms.54100:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.880
Think what has happened so far, and we've only presented54200:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.240
two acts. A woman dies, a man dies, a dog dies,54300:28:22.559 --> 00:28:23.640
a marriage dies.54400:28:24.279 --> 00:28:27.599
What's left for act free? I'll be back shortly.54500:28:29.400 --> 00:28:29.920
And then.54600:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.000
If you tell me that you have never had the54700:28:38.119 --> 00:28:41.319
urge to destroy someone, I shall not believe you. The54800:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.480
desire starts at each one of us at an early age.54900:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.920
It resides in the tiny infants, who, if his strength55000:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.559
matched his fury, could destroy the world.55100:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.200
As he grows, the.55200:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.640
Wish is modified, tamed, deflected, but it never really dies.55300:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.920
I'm Kathy Harrigan, and I'm the best literary agent in55400:29:04.960 --> 00:29:08.319
the country. To begin with, I have impeccable taste.55500:29:08.920 --> 00:29:10.440
That's just the starters.55600:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.119
Then I have to wear a context, which I've cultivated55700:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.920
over the years. And finally, I am a super salesperson.55800:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.920
That's about sums it up.55900:29:19.960 --> 00:29:23.920
I think why I should have fallen for an insignificant56000:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.960
little man like John Bates. I'll never know, but I had.56100:29:28.640 --> 00:29:29.200
And that's that.56200:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.880
Every time the phone rang, I hoped desperately it would56300:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.440
be John and not his frightful wife.56400:29:36.720 --> 00:29:39.240
Hello, Kathy, this is Louise.56500:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.480
Oh, yes, Louise, how are you?56600:29:41.799 --> 00:29:42.319
Kathy?56700:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.119
I have great news for you.56800:29:44.640 --> 00:29:45.039
Tell me.56900:29:45.279 --> 00:29:45.759
Can't wait.57000:29:46.119 --> 00:29:52.519
I've finished the novel, Kathy, did you hear me? I've57100:29:52.559 --> 00:29:53.880
completed my book.57200:29:54.839 --> 00:29:56.599
What, Louise, that's wonderful.57300:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.720
I didn't think I caught.57400:29:58.079 --> 00:29:59.960
Things have been so peculiar around here.57500:30:00.799 --> 00:30:01.400
What things?57600:30:01.480 --> 00:30:03.480
Oh, I don't have time to go into all that57700:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.160
right now, just all things, you know.57800:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.039
Well, they throw me off my stride for a while.57900:30:09.400 --> 00:30:11.559
But now I think I've got to make Oh when58000:30:11.599 --> 00:30:12.319
can I read the book?58100:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.160
I could bring it over to your office right now,58200:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.079
except that I am exhausted.58300:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.240
I couldn't you send someone for it?58400:30:19.920 --> 00:30:21.480
Why did you ask John to bring it over?58500:30:21.559 --> 00:30:21.680
Oh?58600:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.240
I don't know.58700:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.200
You don't have anybody to send. John's really responsible for.58800:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.279
My finishing it in a way, although he's the one58900:30:29.279 --> 00:30:30.759
who kept me from finishing.59000:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.039
In weeks ago.59100:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.000
I don't if John's always so obliging, I'm sure.59200:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.039
Oh okay, and.59300:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.200
John, Oh Cathy, I can't wait till you read it.59400:30:41.759 --> 00:30:48.079
Neither can I tell John to hurry it up? Of59500:30:48.160 --> 00:30:50.000
course I could have sent somebody. I could have sent59600:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.000
my secretary, I could have hired a messenger. But I59700:30:53.039 --> 00:30:54.799
wanted to see John, and I wanted to see him59800:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.240
right away to find out how he had accomplished the59900:30:58.359 --> 00:31:02.400
miracle of making Louise her book. I couldn't concentrate on60000:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.920
my work waiting for him to arrive.60100:31:04.960 --> 00:31:07.400
John, Hello, Kathy, girl said to go right in.60200:31:07.599 --> 00:31:09.039
Ah, you got a kiss for me?60300:31:09.119 --> 00:31:09.599
You bet it?60400:31:09.640 --> 00:31:17.039
M Okay, Now I got the manuscript right here. Well60500:31:17.319 --> 00:31:20.240
it's the right way. Oh, that's it down, John.60600:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.759
Listen, I got a lot of work all piled up.60700:31:22.720 --> 00:31:25.319
Well, just for a minute, I want to know how60800:31:25.400 --> 00:31:26.000
you did it.60900:31:26.160 --> 00:31:27.960
You mean, how I got Louise to finish the book?61000:31:29.160 --> 00:31:29.680
It was easy?61100:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.519
How did you do it? It couldn't have been that easy.61200:31:31.559 --> 00:31:33.799
Well, after you told me about the evil Eye, I61300:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.000
got to thinking about it, and I told Louise that61400:31:37.079 --> 00:31:37.720
she had it.61500:31:38.160 --> 00:31:40.440
You didn't. Wasn't I supposed to mean?61600:31:40.480 --> 00:31:40.839
I asked you?61700:31:41.000 --> 00:31:43.359
I mean I pointed out that Benita Barlow had died61800:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.000
after Louise had said she could kill her.61900:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.559
She did say that, you know, yeah gone. And Stephen Bennett, a.62000:31:48.559 --> 00:31:50.160
Man who came to the house and banged on the door,62100:31:50.200 --> 00:31:50.599
the one.62200:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.599
That she was so furious with, he died.62300:31:53.200 --> 00:31:55.640
Go on, Well, none of that made very much of62400:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.240
an impression on her. Nothing did until I told her62500:31:58.279 --> 00:31:59.039
about the dog.62600:32:01.079 --> 00:32:01.599
What dog?62700:32:01.680 --> 00:32:04.359
The dog the one down the block that barks sometimes.62800:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.720
And I told her about the couple next door.62900:32:08.480 --> 00:32:09.119
What couple?63000:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.880
A couple that played their rock and roll records so loud.63100:32:13.039 --> 00:32:14.039
They're getting a divorce.63200:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.599
That's all you did.63300:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.720
That's about it. Let's not. I better get back to work, John.63400:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.599
I love you. You know that, do you, Cathy?63500:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.440
Because I love you?63600:32:26.559 --> 00:32:26.720
Oh?63700:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.720
Look, don't you think we ought to tell Louise about us.63800:32:31.759 --> 00:32:33.440
She has a right to know. She's got to know something.63900:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.079
No, no, no, she doesn't know. She hasn't believed me.64000:32:36.359 --> 00:32:38.160
She doesn't want to know. She wouldn't like knowing, she'd64100:32:38.160 --> 00:32:41.720
hate it. Well, she mustn't know. Would be very bad64200:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.039
if she.64300:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.279
Knew, all right, all right, good.64400:32:44.359 --> 00:32:45.480
Be just terrible if she knew.64500:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.720
You run along, sweetheart, and you tell Louise, I'll call64600:32:49.759 --> 00:32:55.720
her as soon as I finished the novel. Poor John,64700:32:56.400 --> 00:33:01.599
so timid, so fearful, afraid of everything, and everybody frightened,64800:33:01.680 --> 00:33:02.440
the little.64900:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.000
Mouse of a man.65000:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.240
But I loved him, and.65100:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.640
He had accomplished the remarkable feat of persuading his wife65200:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.000
to finish her book, a book on which I expected, along.65300:33:12.759 --> 00:33:14.559
With her, to make a great deal of money.65400:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.319
I stayed up past the night reading it. In the65500:33:18.319 --> 00:33:19.279
morning I made a date with.65600:33:19.319 --> 00:33:20.000
Her for luncheon.65700:33:22.319 --> 00:33:29.000
Well tell me, tell me it's great, isn't it. I65800:33:29.119 --> 00:33:32.400
tell you, Kathy, this is going to be the best yet,65900:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.960
a smash, a blockbuster. Tell me, am I right, of course,66000:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.400
I'm right. After all these days, Kathy, I know these things.66100:33:42.680 --> 00:33:46.839
This book is going to light up the sky. Look way,66200:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.240
you did read it, didn't your voice?66300:33:48.279 --> 00:33:48.759
I read it?66400:33:48.839 --> 00:33:49.599
You know I read it?66500:33:49.720 --> 00:33:49.920
Well.66600:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.000
Well, I stayed up past the night reading it.66700:33:52.559 --> 00:33:58.039
I told you that on the phone. Well what am66800:33:58.160 --> 00:34:05.519
I right? No, No, Louise, You're not right, at least66900:34:05.519 --> 00:34:06.359
in my opinion.67000:34:06.559 --> 00:34:10.280
I am right. I'm always right about my own work.67100:34:11.039 --> 00:34:14.159
This is a great book. This is a great book, Louise.67200:34:14.280 --> 00:34:15.880
I was just giving you my opinion.67300:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.639
Now, everybody's entitled to have an opinion, don't you agree, Not.67400:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.559
When it's the wrong opinions. Louise, How did you happen67500:34:24.599 --> 00:34:25.199
to finish it?67600:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.480
John told me I could?67700:34:28.320 --> 00:34:33.920
Oh, he said, Louise, you have the power and the will.67800:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.760
And I went upstairs and finished it.67900:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.360
And they said, whatever's enough.68000:34:41.320 --> 00:34:45.320
After all, if I had the power and the will68100:34:45.559 --> 00:34:47.360
to do what.68200:34:47.360 --> 00:34:48.760
I'd already done, and.68300:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.239
What was that?68400:34:49.639 --> 00:34:53.400
I never mind. The point is I had it. I68500:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.119
had the power and the will. He told me I68600:34:57.159 --> 00:34:58.559
had it, and I had it.68700:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.880
Of course I've known all along I had it, but68800:35:02.920 --> 00:35:04.840
nobody ever told me I had it.68900:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.039
You see them when he told me I.69000:35:06.960 --> 00:35:11.400
Had it, then I knew that I had it, or69100:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.679
I needed with somebody to tell me I had it,69200:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.719
don't you see?69300:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.159
I don't know that I do, Louise.69400:35:19.400 --> 00:35:25.159
And I'm sorry for you, really neatly, profumbly sorry.69500:35:26.559 --> 00:35:34.079
Really well, let me tell you something, Louise. It is69600:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.679
a cheap, trashy book. Cheap and trashy. Even know that69700:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.039
all your books haven't been cheap and trashy, Louise, because69800:35:40.039 --> 00:35:43.079
they have been, but you believed in them so utterly.69900:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.079
Something came through people who read them came to believe70000:35:46.119 --> 00:35:46.840
that life could.70100:35:46.679 --> 00:35:48.960
Be sweet and wonderful and full of joy and love70200:35:49.000 --> 00:35:53.280
and light, without pain, without suffering, where goodness and sweetness70300:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.679
were rewarded and meanness and cruelty were punished.70400:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.559
Well, I believe that it.70500:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.800
It's such a fool. I'm sure you do believe it.70600:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.440
And because it's what everybody wants to believe. Your books70700:36:02.440 --> 00:36:03.480
sell like crazy.70800:36:04.239 --> 00:36:05.480
Love conquers all.70900:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.480
That's all your book says, that's all Any of your71000:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.079
books that ever said, well, it's true?71100:36:10.119 --> 00:36:10.920
How would you know?71200:36:11.079 --> 00:36:12.159
What?71300:36:12.159 --> 00:36:13.159
What did you say?71400:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.400
I said, how would you know about love? I know71500:36:17.719 --> 00:36:18.400
all about it?71600:36:18.400 --> 00:36:20.519
And nobody could tell it from your books. They are71700:36:20.599 --> 00:36:21.360
sleazy and.71800:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.960
Phony and trump chums, some sex thrown in every fifty71900:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.480
pages just to show you're with it, And even those72000:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.000
parts aren't very good. There is phony and full of72100:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.199
sakery as the rest of it.72200:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.079
Shut shut and ask me.72300:36:34.280 --> 00:36:36.880
I will never ask you again. You can bet on that.72400:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.800
What's more, I'll make you eat your words casting you72500:36:39.880 --> 00:36:41.760
weep and said, what I believe?72600:36:42.239 --> 00:36:42.480
What it?72700:36:43.480 --> 00:36:50.159
Cassie, Cassie, what is it? If you want a glass72800:36:50.159 --> 00:36:50.400
of water?72900:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.800
And I do to me.73000:36:54.079 --> 00:36:54.599
I'm all right.73100:36:54.719 --> 00:36:59.440
I was just joking on my words.73200:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.400
You mean that I did not tea, I did it.73300:37:05.840 --> 00:37:10.639
You're a very powerful woman, Louise, very very powerful, and73400:37:10.800 --> 00:37:19.039
teat It was true. I hadn't taken a bite of food,73500:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.360
we hadn't even ordered. But the power of Louise's hatred,73600:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.559
her malevolence, told me, had brought on one of those73700:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.440
helpless fits of coughing until they stop, you think you're73800:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.920
going to die. It was only when I realized, even73900:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.000
as I was gasping for breath, that it was the74000:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.760
evil eye of Louise Bates that was threatening my very life.74100:37:43.960 --> 00:37:49.320
It was only then I was able to stop. Johanna74200:37:49.480 --> 00:37:54.599
was awful? Were Cathy for a baby? I'm so FRIGHTENFULU.74300:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.440
I told her her novels were terrible, and I told74400:37:59.440 --> 00:38:03.280
her something. I told her she didn't know anything about love.74500:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.039
Oh boy, that was worse.74600:38:05.119 --> 00:38:07.119
But she doesn't know anything about love, not the way74700:38:07.159 --> 00:38:07.800
we know it.74800:38:07.840 --> 00:38:09.639
Look, I don't think it was a very good thing74900:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.159
to tell her.75000:38:11.760 --> 00:38:15.719
Chaffy, I think I better be getting on well, I75100:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.480
think I better. What was that somebody knocking at the door.75200:38:20.719 --> 00:38:23.360
Can't imagine who, Jafy.75300:38:24.639 --> 00:38:26.400
Me it's Louise.75400:38:26.920 --> 00:38:28.199
I need to talk to you.75500:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.000
Jaffy, what do we do?75600:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.760
Leave it to me? Come in, Louise.75700:38:37.280 --> 00:38:37.679
Thank you.75800:38:38.719 --> 00:38:42.000
Oh John, Hello Louise.75900:38:42.880 --> 00:38:46.400
I didn't expect to find you here, but maybe I76000:38:46.400 --> 00:38:46.880
should have.76100:38:47.519 --> 00:38:48.559
Maybe I've been stupid.76200:38:48.639 --> 00:38:50.480
Oh, I've been stupid.76300:38:50.199 --> 00:38:51.280
About a lot of things.76400:38:51.400 --> 00:38:55.440
Like I never knew till you told me, John that76500:38:55.599 --> 00:38:57.039
I had the evil eye.76600:38:57.400 --> 00:38:57.760
Louise.76700:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.920
When I think of what I've.76800:38:59.679 --> 00:39:05.599
Done, the power I've had, the power I've used, it's76900:39:05.719 --> 00:39:06.840
awful to contemplate.77000:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.039
We don't think about it. You couldn't help.77100:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.360
It, but I must help it. I must learn to77200:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.679
control us. Are you too in.77300:39:17.719 --> 00:39:18.760
Love with each other?77400:39:20.159 --> 00:39:20.480
Yes?77500:39:20.519 --> 00:39:20.880
We are?77600:39:22.360 --> 00:39:22.639
We are?77700:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.920
Yes, Well, then you have my blessing. I won't stand77800:39:27.920 --> 00:39:29.920
in your way, Louise.77900:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.280
You mean that with.78000:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.000
All my heart.78100:39:33.760 --> 00:39:35.679
I hope the two of you will be very happy.78200:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.679
Thank you. And Kathy.78300:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.719
You don't have to show my last novel to the78400:39:42.719 --> 00:39:44.119
publishers if you.78500:39:44.039 --> 00:39:45.280
Don't want to, but I do.78600:39:45.480 --> 00:39:47.280
It probably isn't very good anyway.78700:39:48.280 --> 00:39:55.480
Goodbye, And with that, Louise turned and walked out out78800:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.719
of the room and out of our lives. What had78900:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.320
happened as near as I can figure out is that79000:40:01.400 --> 00:40:04.280
she had been so shocked and horrified by the realization79100:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.599
of her power that she had turned completely in the79200:40:07.599 --> 00:40:11.440
opposite direction and was determined to become a saint.79300:40:15.440 --> 00:40:18.280
It's John Bates again, and I'd like to add a79400:40:18.280 --> 00:40:18.840
few words.79500:40:19.679 --> 00:40:21.639
After all, I'm responsible for the whole thing.79600:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.039
I was the one who taught Louise to say I79700:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.079
can and I will. Kathy and I are married now79800:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.360
it's working out all right, I guess. But Kathy is79900:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.840
a very powerful woman too, and one of these days80000:40:36.880 --> 00:40:41.360
I may have to say to myself, I can and80100:40:41.440 --> 00:40:47.280
I will. Then I'll go back to Louise, who has80200:40:47.320 --> 00:40:59.840
turned into a really very nice person. How things are80300:41:00.039 --> 00:41:03.119
learned about in this world. The cheater becomes the cheated,80400:41:03.480 --> 00:41:07.360
and the rob becomes a robber, the perpetrator becomes a victim,80500:41:07.719 --> 00:41:11.199
and no one is satisfied, at least not for long.80600:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.800
A very very strange world, indeed, but alas the only80700:41:16.840 --> 00:41:29.079
one we've got. I'll be back shortly. Let me read80800:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.840
to you one more time from the works of Bles Pascal.80900:41:33.360 --> 00:41:37.199
What a chimera is man, What a novelty, what a monster?81000:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.599
What a chaos? What a contradiction? What a prodigy, judge of.81100:41:42.559 --> 00:41:47.039
All things, feeble, worm of the earth, depository of truth,81200:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.199
a saint of uncertainty and error, the glory and the81300:41:52.239 --> 00:41:56.480
shame of the universe. Ourcasts included Carol t I Tell,81400:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.280
Mandel Kramer, and Terry Keene. The entire production was under81500:42:00.280 --> 00:42:06.199
the direction of i'mon Brown and now a free view81600:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.280
of our next tale. That woman's not saying those words, Peter,81700:42:11.360 --> 00:42:12.519
her lips on even moving.81800:42:12.760 --> 00:42:14.400
It's a trick, George.81900:42:14.639 --> 00:42:19.960
Please limits there are now as you climb the hilltop.82000:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.840
When you reach the summit of your hill, you will82100:42:23.880 --> 00:42:27.360
find your dreams guarding the top most peak.82200:42:27.800 --> 00:42:33.519
Oh yes, yes, sir Walter, I shall, I shall. That's82300:42:33.559 --> 00:42:35.079
not Sir Walter Scott.82400:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.199
George, please, I beg of you.82500:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.039
The sun will set, the quietness and twilight will fall82600:42:42.119 --> 00:42:46.400
around you and your own, your beloved. What evil and82700:42:46.639 --> 00:42:47.519
will speak?82800:42:48.360 --> 00:42:51.039
It's a big Peter. Look at this wire in my hand.82900:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.599
I've pulled it out. There's someone in another room speaking83000:42:54.599 --> 00:42:58.039
into a microphone. It's a far This is E. G.83100:42:58.280 --> 00:43:01.920
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for83200:43:02.039 --> 00:43:39.719
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant dreams.83300:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.159
I can't say that I feel my curse has been absolved,83400:43:50.280 --> 00:43:54.800
so to speak. But I do think this cup of83500:43:54.880 --> 00:43:59.880
tea could use a bit of company. So I'll refill83600:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.079
this and refresh it. Or what's that it? No, no, no,83700:44:06.039 --> 00:44:13.920
only the wind. It blows and blows. It never stops. Really,83800:44:14.719 --> 00:44:19.480
you think it does, but that's just your perspective. It83900:44:19.599 --> 00:44:23.920
never truly stops. It's not like you are me. There's84000:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.639
no end coming for the wind, just as there's no84100:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.800
end to the eve of Adelaide Winters.84200:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.119
You're about to hear a story based on actual events.84300:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.760
To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed.84400:44:48.440 --> 00:44:51.480
Auto Light and it's ninety six thousand dealers bring you84500:44:51.599 --> 00:44:56.960
Miss Agnes Moorehead in a story taken from Life Tonight's presentation.84600:44:56.559 --> 00:44:59.880
Of Suspense.84700:45:05.280 --> 00:45:10.119
Tonight Autolite presents the evil of Adelaide Winters, a story84800:45:10.199 --> 00:45:14.039
about the awful results of a woman's greed, starring Miss84900:45:14.159 --> 00:45:23.880
Agnes Moorehead. Well, there's Stanley Smart, the brainy boss of85000:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.760
our bustling baseball club. What's the matter stand battery trouble.85100:45:27.519 --> 00:45:29.840
Yeah, hollo, I forgot to fill my battery with water,85200:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.360
and it's dead as a cellar dweller's pen and chances,85300:45:33.360 --> 00:45:34.880
Oh why not farm it out in favor of an85400:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.320
auto light stay full battery, the battery that needs water85500:45:37.400 --> 00:45:39.440
only three times a year in normal car use.85600:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.039
Lots on the ball, he Hallow not sure has stand85700:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.400
because the famous auto light stay full has over three85800:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.480
times the liquid reserve of batteries without stay full features,85900:45:47.800 --> 00:45:50.519
and that advantage alone helps overcome one of the greatest86000:45:50.519 --> 00:45:51.760
causes of battery failure.86100:45:51.840 --> 00:45:54.440
Sounds like just when I need hollo, I stand.86200:45:54.440 --> 00:45:57.800
The auto light stay full is top's independable starting power86300:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.320
and gives longer life as proved by tests, can inducted86400:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.360
according to accepted life cycle standard.86500:46:02.679 --> 00:46:03.840
Lead me to it, Hollow.86600:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.000
Just call Western Union by number and ask for operator86700:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.760
twenty five. She'll quickly and without obligation tell you the86800:46:09.840 --> 00:46:12.599
name and address of your nearest auto lighte battery dealer86900:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.559
who handles the famous autolite stayfull, the battery that needs87000:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.280
water only three times a year in normal car use.87100:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.280
And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right87200:46:23.679 --> 00:46:28.440
with autolite. And now with the evil of Adelaide winters87300:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.760
and the performance of miss Agnes moorehead, Autolite hopes once87400:46:32.800 --> 00:46:36.079
again to keep you in suspence.87500:46:39.280 --> 00:46:42.000
I am grateful for any chance to tell my story,87600:46:42.039 --> 00:46:46.400
to explain my position in the entire horrible affair. Since87700:46:46.440 --> 00:46:48.559
the doctor's finally removed the bullet from the base of87800:46:48.599 --> 00:46:52.079
my skull, I'm able to speak. For over six years,87900:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.199
my body has been paralyzed, and I've had to remain silent.88000:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.239
But now I can speak. You wait, you weigh all88100:47:00.280 --> 00:47:03.639
the facts about whether I did Edward Porter more harm88200:47:03.679 --> 00:47:12.079
than good. The war years had made the work of88300:47:12.119 --> 00:47:17.400
astro communicators mediums. They'd made our work important and necessary.88400:47:17.800 --> 00:47:21.079
We believe it's as necessary as life itself to believe88500:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.360
in life after death, especially during the war when people's88600:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.840
loved ones are dying, it's important mediums bring courage to despair.88700:47:31.079 --> 00:47:32.480
Did you get all the newspapers?88800:47:32.880 --> 00:47:34.800
Yeah, late, I got them all.88900:47:35.519 --> 00:47:37.679
Read me the list.89000:47:38.760 --> 00:47:41.679
For the week of July eighth, the War Department announces89100:47:41.719 --> 00:47:44.280
the following members of the Army listed as dead.89200:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.960
PFC Thomas, just those missing in action, Robert.89300:47:47.679 --> 00:47:51.480
Please, oh late, I still don't like it.89400:47:51.400 --> 00:47:53.079
It doesn't make much difference if you like it.89500:47:53.360 --> 00:47:55.840
Oh look, I taught you everything about this medium racket.89600:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.960
Oh yes, you taught about tin horns blowing and faces89700:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.519
painted with posphorus and coloring. You taught me a series89800:48:02.559 --> 00:48:08.119
of Halloween tricks, carnival mumbo jumbo. I made it pay, Robert,89900:48:08.159 --> 00:48:09.199
I made it a science.90000:48:09.920 --> 00:48:10.880
You took them from me.90100:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.119
I didn't need them. I have inside you don't. I90200:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.559
know about people's superstition and desperation. I can read people's weaknesses.90300:48:16.960 --> 00:48:18.239
Did you teach me those things?90400:48:18.519 --> 00:48:18.920
You?90500:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.480
You don't know anything, not even your own weakness. You're90600:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.639
a terrible weakness. You need me, Robert, I don't need you.90700:48:26.559 --> 00:48:29.199
I did once, but not now, not anymore. Go ahead,90800:48:29.880 --> 00:48:32.039
go ahead, walk out, walk out the front door.90900:48:32.199 --> 00:48:35.480
Please don't talk like that, Adelaide you No, I'd.91000:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.239
Never leave you, of course I do.91100:48:38.360 --> 00:48:41.239
Look, haven't we made enough, all the people we've taken.91200:48:41.000 --> 00:48:45.119
So far, Roberts. That's why you've never been a successful medium.91300:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.039
We haven't taken or used anyone.91400:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.360
We've helped them, rich old dowagers who were on their91500:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.039
last legs anyway, people with nothing but time and dote away, people.91600:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.119
Who've lost their loved ones. The bereaved and despairing, we91700:48:57.199 --> 00:49:00.960
give them hope. The widows and weeping, we bring them91800:49:01.000 --> 00:49:04.559
contact with their loved ones who've died on some distant battlefield.91900:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.280
I wish I understood you. I wish I knew what92000:49:08.360 --> 00:49:08.840
you want.92100:49:08.880 --> 00:49:11.320
I want money and happiness, and they're the same.92200:49:11.800 --> 00:49:13.440
But we've got money not enough.92300:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.480
Read me the list of those missing inaction, Robert, and92400:49:17.519 --> 00:49:19.840
their addresses and their phone numbers.92500:49:19.440 --> 00:49:25.400
Please, Pfc. Timothy Alington nine twenty seven North King Avenue,92600:49:25.480 --> 00:49:26.199
Cutler nine.92700:49:26.360 --> 00:49:28.480
Not a good neighborhood, oh lade?92800:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.760
Would it be simple to just contact the relatives of92900:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.519
the men who were killed? Wouldn't it be easy to93000:49:33.599 --> 00:49:34.159
work them?93100:49:34.320 --> 00:49:34.480
No?93200:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.239
I told you know, with a man missing in action,93300:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.599
who's to say my information about how or if he93400:49:39.679 --> 00:49:40.679
died is right or wrong?93500:49:41.199 --> 00:49:41.679
Who?93600:49:42.320 --> 00:49:44.000
Not even the War Department, not even the meadow was93700:49:44.000 --> 00:49:44.679
supposed to know.93800:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.400
Continue Roberts Staff Sergeant A. Fineman eight twenty six East93900:49:50.440 --> 00:49:51.440
thirty second Street.94000:49:51.599 --> 00:49:53.960
Very poor district. People are poor.94100:49:54.599 --> 00:49:59.079
I see Corporal John Porter fourteen thirty eight Williamsburg Road94200:49:59.159 --> 00:49:59.880
Hammer Force.94300:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.639
Call that one, Robert, use that phone. I'll listen in94400:50:03.679 --> 00:50:11.960
on this one.94500:50:21.159 --> 00:50:25.639
Hello, is this mister Porter? Yes, Corporal John Porter's father.94600:50:25.719 --> 00:50:26.239
I'm his father.94700:50:26.360 --> 00:50:26.840
What is it?94800:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.119
This is the war to pardon you found me.94900:50:29.440 --> 00:50:32.119
I'd almost given up hope, but you found my son alife.95000:50:32.599 --> 00:50:34.360
Your son is dead, mister Porter.95100:50:39.360 --> 00:50:42.280
Well, all right, you can say what you like. But mostly,95200:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.199
and I've pieced the reports together, mostly missing in action95300:50:45.320 --> 00:50:48.239
means the worst kind of death in a war. Oh,95400:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.000
people officials arguing with me, they say that missing in95500:50:51.079 --> 00:50:52.199
action only means missing.95600:50:52.360 --> 00:50:53.440
Yes, but for how long?95700:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.360
Edward Porter? That was his name, Edwards the father he95800:50:57.400 --> 00:51:00.880
didn't know, And even though he was skeptical when I95900:51:00.920 --> 00:51:05.159
telephoned him, he came to my office skeptically, but in desperation,96000:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.039
don't you see? He came to my office with the96100:51:08.159 --> 00:51:09.960
hope he'd find his dead son.96200:51:10.199 --> 00:51:13.519
I usually never come to these things.96300:51:13.920 --> 00:51:16.039
You don't believe in them, mister Porter.96400:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.519
I don't know. I knew once, I don't know now.96500:51:19.559 --> 00:51:21.960
Well, it's difficult to know anything for certain in moments96600:51:22.039 --> 00:51:22.239
like this.96700:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.960
I've been a realist out my life, yes, so have I.96800:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.760
I'm a successful businessman. I've always dealt with facts, facts96900:51:28.760 --> 00:51:29.480
and figures.97000:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.559
Ah, this is real, mister Porter.97100:51:31.719 --> 00:51:35.039
Maybe I mean, I don't know what.97200:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.199
You really mean? Is you you hope? So you hope97300:51:38.239 --> 00:51:40.440
it's true? You hope it's real.97400:51:41.039 --> 00:51:44.360
Yes, yes, that's it. I hope it's real.97500:51:44.480 --> 00:51:48.480
That it's not a racket. Rackets are only out for money. Well,97600:51:49.360 --> 00:51:51.760
I will want money, mister Porter. I must live too,97700:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.159
But I only want your money if I've helped you.97800:51:55.039 --> 00:51:57.880
Do you understand only if I've made the life of97900:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.639
the astral world, of the life beyond this one, Only98000:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.519
if I've made it. Bring happiness to you?98100:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.599
Here, good woman, missus whitters a good woman.98200:52:08.159 --> 00:52:12.079
We shall start, mister Porter, with the lights on, with98300:52:12.159 --> 00:52:19.639
all things visible to you, we shall start. What could98400:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.760
Edward Porter turn to his friends? They all had their98500:52:23.760 --> 00:52:27.639
own problems, the same kind, are different, But problems could98600:52:27.639 --> 00:52:31.000
he turn to? His work didn't mean anything anymore, or98700:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.920
his money. He had only gathered it for his son,98800:52:34.119 --> 00:52:38.840
his only son, his only child, and that child was dead.98900:52:38.840 --> 00:52:42.800
Only I could help, and we tried for seven days99000:52:42.840 --> 00:52:47.320
to make contact with his son, seven days devoted exclusively99100:52:47.360 --> 00:52:48.159
to Edward Porter.99200:52:57.360 --> 00:52:59.960
I hear, I.99300:53:01.440 --> 00:53:05.320
Hear the faint sounds of guns firing.99400:53:06.840 --> 00:53:10.480
Yes, it's it's very distant, very distant.99500:53:12.119 --> 00:53:19.360
I can't quite yes, yes, a face, I can't I99600:53:19.400 --> 00:53:25.119
cannot see the face. A voice, yes, it's a voice.99700:53:26.639 --> 00:53:33.639
Was terrible who who is it?99800:53:33.679 --> 00:53:36.960
Is it? John? John's a Jew voice?99900:53:37.639 --> 00:53:38.559
You speak.100000:53:40.000 --> 00:53:40.880
Quere friends.100100:53:41.800 --> 00:53:47.559
I was afraid of dying, but now here now it100200:53:47.599 --> 00:53:52.679
is beautiful, is hard and his beauty?100300:53:53.280 --> 00:53:54.800
Please please.100400:53:57.559 --> 00:53:58.760
I am John.100500:54:00.199 --> 00:54:01.559
His job father.100600:54:03.119 --> 00:54:06.519
Thank I must please.100700:54:09.199 --> 00:54:19.440
John stay, please stay? Oh John, my son.100800:54:20.280 --> 00:54:25.119
Ah, this is with us. Oh.100900:54:26.880 --> 00:54:30.920
Oh we've reached him, mister Porter.101000:54:32.960 --> 00:54:34.280
We've reached your son.101100:54:34.880 --> 00:54:46.559
Thank you, We just thank you, thank you, thank you.101200:54:47.320 --> 00:54:50.760
Some say I should have known. Some say I made101300:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.639
him ill, that the shock well, that it affected him.101400:54:54.920 --> 00:54:57.159
But I say it would have happened anyway because he101500:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.119
had nothing to hold on to, nothing. I gave give101600:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.400
him something. You may disagree with the astral science. You101700:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.280
may that you're right, But who else did Edward Porter101800:55:07.320 --> 00:55:09.880
any good when his son was killed in combat? Who101900:55:09.920 --> 00:55:13.239
else brought him any comfort for that horrible, horrible thing?102000:55:14.079 --> 00:55:19.599
I did only I. Maybe that's why he would sit102100:55:19.719 --> 00:55:23.960
for extra hours waiting, not just for a seance for me.102200:55:25.480 --> 00:55:37.039
I had brought him happiness, missus Red.102300:55:37.000 --> 00:55:38.559
Come in, come in, mister Porter.102400:55:39.679 --> 00:55:39.880
Oh.102500:55:39.920 --> 00:55:44.199
I've helped so many people today, so many, but that's102600:55:44.199 --> 00:55:46.239
my dedication. Anyone who needs help.102700:55:46.440 --> 00:55:47.239
Maybe too many?102800:55:47.800 --> 00:55:50.400
Why did you say that? Why too many? How could102900:55:50.400 --> 00:55:52.079
I possibly help too many?103000:55:52.320 --> 00:55:53.239
Never mind, let's begin.103100:55:54.079 --> 00:55:58.760
You're acting unusual to Damester Porter. Is something wrong? I mean,103200:55:58.840 --> 00:56:01.760
is there a new problem I can help you with?103300:56:01.920 --> 00:56:04.280
I said, begin, no talk, begin see.103400:56:04.159 --> 00:56:06.599
Here, mister Porter. I offer my services. I give freely103500:56:06.599 --> 00:56:08.639
of my services to help others. But after all, that103600:56:08.719 --> 00:56:13.280
doesn't give license to you or anyone else, well even you,103700:56:13.559 --> 00:56:17.159
I mean, considering the amount of sessions we've there, I know,103800:56:18.039 --> 00:56:20.840
but it doesn't even give you a right to talk103900:56:20.960 --> 00:56:26.239
like that. Did you hear me, mister Porter, Mister Porter.104000:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.679
I can't stand your spending so much time with others.104100:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.119
It's my work, Missus Winders, I want all your time.104200:56:34.239 --> 00:56:36.480
That's quite impossible and quite expensive.104300:56:36.599 --> 00:56:38.519
I can have thought that I must be with my104400:56:38.639 --> 00:56:39.239
son Mark.104500:56:39.280 --> 00:56:42.519
We'd be pested all day along by other clients. Mister Porter, that.104600:56:42.719 --> 00:56:44.760
Keep coming, I know, I realized.104700:56:44.840 --> 00:56:48.119
And McBain my assistant, he has always been with me.104800:56:48.519 --> 00:56:51.559
Bring both of you live in my home. It's a104900:56:51.679 --> 00:56:56.079
huge house. Since my wife died. Yeah, but you know105000:56:56.159 --> 00:57:00.800
all that said she died. No, my son, I need105100:57:00.840 --> 00:57:04.599
your help. You can bring my son to me. You must,105200:57:05.199 --> 00:57:06.280
you must lie.105300:57:06.800 --> 00:57:10.599
I would be failing mankind if I didn't, I would105400:57:10.599 --> 00:57:14.800
be failing my duty. Of course, Edward.105500:57:15.639 --> 00:57:16.559
Of course.105600:57:30.280 --> 00:57:33.840
Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes moorehead with Joseph105700:57:33.920 --> 00:57:37.960
Kerns and Herb Butterfield in the Evil of Adelaide Winters105800:57:38.320 --> 00:57:43.159
Tonight's production in radio's outstanding Theater of Thrills suspense.105900:57:55.480 --> 00:57:57.239
Wow, that's the old ball game.106000:57:57.360 --> 00:58:00.840
Congratulations, Stan Never could have managed it with that picture.106100:58:00.880 --> 00:58:04.920
Hollow You mean Ace McDougall. No, my new auto light stainful.106200:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.639
That's the power pitture for perfect starts.106300:58:07.719 --> 00:58:08.639
What a battery?106400:58:08.760 --> 00:58:08.920
Oh?106500:58:08.960 --> 00:58:10.760
You visited your auto light battery dealer?106600:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.280
Stand Yes, sir, and I found his name by calling106700:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.599
Western Union and asking for Operator twenty five. You're set106800:58:16.679 --> 00:58:19.480
now because the auto light stayfule needs water only three106900:58:19.480 --> 00:58:22.159
times a year in normal car use, and what's more,107000:58:22.199 --> 00:58:25.320
it gives longer life. Has proved by tests conducted according107100:58:25.320 --> 00:58:27.199
to accepted life cycle standards.107200:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.639
It can't beat that winning compensation. No, sir, hollow right,107300:58:30.719 --> 00:58:33.440
you are so friends. See you're nearest auto light battery107400:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.920
dealer soon to quickly learn his address, Call Western Union107500:58:36.960 --> 00:58:40.639
by number, ask for operator twenty five. Without obligation, she107600:58:40.719 --> 00:58:43.559
will tell you where you can buy an auto light stafule,107700:58:44.239 --> 00:58:49.559
the battery that proves you're always right with autolite, and107800:58:49.639 --> 00:58:52.840
now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.107900:58:53.039 --> 00:58:57.519
Miss Agnes Moorehead in Elliott Lewis's production of the Evil108000:58:57.599 --> 00:59:01.760
of Adelaide winters a dramatic report, well calculated to keep108100:59:01.800 --> 00:59:04.079
you in suspense.108200:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.519
Why should I think there was anything wrong in moving108300:59:22.559 --> 00:59:26.119
into Edward Porter's huge home. It was a beautiful new108400:59:26.119 --> 00:59:29.239
home for his son. But now his son was dead108500:59:29.239 --> 00:59:32.440
in the war, and I was bringing his son to him,108600:59:32.440 --> 00:59:35.199
making Edward Porter think the life his son had gone108700:59:35.239 --> 00:59:39.280
to was really a better life, a fuller life, a108800:59:39.400 --> 00:59:45.280
happier life. Maybe that should have been my warning. Maybe108900:59:45.320 --> 00:59:49.320
I should have known. But the money was so wonderful,109000:59:49.519 --> 00:59:53.440
the house was so beautiful, the money and house for109100:59:53.519 --> 00:59:58.199
a dead man's voice once a day only Robert McMain109200:59:58.280 --> 00:59:59.039
warned against it.109301:00:00.880 --> 01:00:03.440
I just picked up the mail. There's a letter for you, me,109401:00:04.599 --> 01:00:06.639
a letter for me here, War Department.109501:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.280
You opened it. You opened my mail.109601:00:09.519 --> 01:00:12.320
It's addressed to Porter, but it's for you.109701:00:12.599 --> 01:00:14.320
What was it? What did it say?109801:00:14.559 --> 01:00:15.760
Eh? Read it yourself.109901:00:17.320 --> 01:00:20.599
Seems the government doesn't like mediums posing as the war department.110001:00:20.599 --> 01:00:21.960
Who could have told him about me?110101:00:22.320 --> 01:00:23.639
They don't mention anything, but.110201:00:23.559 --> 01:00:26.519
They say mediums have been contacting the parents of war casualties.110301:00:26.559 --> 01:00:27.880
I've done that. They must be me.110401:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.440
Well, what difference does it make? We've taken Porter for enough?110501:00:30.599 --> 01:00:31.000
Shut up?110601:00:31.079 --> 01:00:33.880
I'm warning you, Adelaide. I can see it. You can't.110701:00:34.039 --> 01:00:36.360
I can see his eyes when when you walk past110801:00:36.400 --> 01:00:38.360
him it's time to lay off, to get out.110901:00:38.519 --> 01:00:44.480
Oh no, oh no, Robert, you would like that. You'd111001:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.760
like me to run, to leave all this? Well, I111101:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.400
won't because I'm going to marry Edward Porter.111201:00:54.440 --> 01:00:58.880
Oh you can't. You wouldn't, Adelaide. I've worked for you,111301:00:58.960 --> 01:00:59.559
I've loved you.111401:00:59.599 --> 01:01:01.679
I've I've hung around because I loved.111501:01:01.480 --> 01:01:03.360
It, And you can still hang around. Robert.111601:01:04.000 --> 01:01:06.039
No, No, not now, not now.111701:01:06.119 --> 01:01:10.920
I won't getting brave again, Robert. This is a comfortable life,111801:01:11.119 --> 01:01:14.880
just being a dead man's voice. Going to throw it111901:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.119
over for love? I'm not marrying for love? Why should112001:01:19.119 --> 01:01:20.559
you throw all this away for love?112101:01:22.119 --> 01:01:23.280
Did he ask you to marry him?112201:01:23.360 --> 01:01:25.360
Speak up, Robert, I can't hear you.112301:01:26.079 --> 01:01:28.159
I said, did he ask you to marry him?112401:01:28.519 --> 01:01:30.320
No? But he will.112501:01:30.639 --> 01:01:33.039
Oh, you're awfully sure of yourself about everything.112601:01:33.079 --> 01:01:36.559
Of course, he'll ask me, because he must hold on112701:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.440
to me. I'm the only person who can bring his112801:01:39.519 --> 01:01:43.920
son to him every day, like a clock, like a stopwatch,112901:01:45.639 --> 01:01:46.679
like a pistol shot.113001:01:47.239 --> 01:01:49.559
Something's wrong with him, I'm warning him.113101:01:49.639 --> 01:01:53.400
Yes, I can bring his son to him like a stopwatch, Robert.113201:02:02.199 --> 01:02:05.880
Even now, I say, no one, no one could have113301:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.760
foreseen the events. I'm sure of that, as sure as113401:02:08.800 --> 01:02:11.119
I am that no one would have acted any differently113501:02:11.199 --> 01:02:14.440
than I did. As little by little, I became the113601:02:14.480 --> 01:02:18.400
most important thing, the only thing in Edward Porter's life,113701:02:18.599 --> 01:02:23.760
the only thing beside a voice. He worshiped, Yes, worshiped.113801:02:24.400 --> 01:02:27.320
Could any woman refuse such adoration, such love?113901:02:29.400 --> 01:02:34.199
John sounded happy, Adelaide, What what Edward I said? He114001:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.159
sounded happy, happier than I've ever heard him.114101:02:37.280 --> 01:02:39.920
Yes, they are happy in that other world.114201:02:40.840 --> 01:02:44.679
How wonderful to feel happy again, to feel hopeful.114301:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.800
To share your life with someone.114401:02:47.920 --> 01:02:48.920
To share it with you.114501:02:50.280 --> 01:02:50.599
Edward.114601:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.320
John didn't say much today. That isn't like him. He's114701:02:57.400 --> 01:03:02.159
always talkative. I wonder if I've been saying the right114801:03:02.199 --> 01:03:02.920
things to him.114901:03:03.000 --> 01:03:03.559
At Lee.115001:03:04.039 --> 01:03:09.360
You speak of him as if he's like us, isn't115101:03:09.360 --> 01:03:12.880
he well? Of course we're all one spirit. Of course115201:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.239
he's like us. But we have a life on this115301:03:15.320 --> 01:03:17.599
world to live before the other one. We have so115401:03:17.719 --> 01:03:18.559
much to live for.115501:03:18.840 --> 01:03:21.320
Can it compare to the other world beyond the grave?115601:03:21.920 --> 01:03:25.880
Why no? But we must wait our time. We cannot115701:03:25.920 --> 01:03:29.800
ignore this life. We are in it. We must live115801:03:29.880 --> 01:03:30.880
as best we can.115901:03:31.639 --> 01:03:35.599
I don't know if I ever could without John. This116001:03:35.960 --> 01:03:37.440
was built for my son.116101:03:37.639 --> 01:03:41.039
You haven't lost him through me. Regain John.116201:03:41.320 --> 01:03:43.199
That's why all this is yours.116301:03:43.719 --> 01:03:45.800
Well, I'm only a kind of employee.116401:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.039
Don't say that all salary.116501:03:48.159 --> 01:03:52.679
You're not an employee, more like a member of the family.116601:03:53.679 --> 01:03:58.840
But not. Actually, there's a great difference between like and actually.116701:03:58.599 --> 01:03:59.639
You're the family.116801:03:59.719 --> 01:04:02.360
You when John and I, you and I.116901:04:04.079 --> 01:04:05.400
John is a spirit.117001:04:05.519 --> 01:04:09.679
Now you and John and I one family, one unit.117101:04:09.719 --> 01:04:10.000
Again.117201:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.000
I'm not your wife. You speak like I'm your wife.117301:04:13.280 --> 01:04:15.599
I'm not Edward, not at all.117401:04:16.199 --> 01:04:21.599
You will be my wife, my dear, my wonderful wife.117501:04:22.199 --> 01:04:29.599
Edward, kind, sweet Edward, my husband, Edward.117601:04:31.800 --> 01:04:37.679
I said something odd here now with us, No Edward,117701:04:37.760 --> 01:04:42.480
no darling, like we were with John for the first time,117801:04:43.039 --> 01:04:44.400
as if we were with John.117901:04:44.480 --> 01:04:45.199
No, Edward.118001:04:45.280 --> 01:04:48.800
It's not that he wanted us to share our happiness118101:04:48.840 --> 01:05:00.519
with him, like he wanted us to be with him.118201:05:00.679 --> 01:05:04.480
I was terrified. I'd never seen it before, a reaction118301:05:04.679 --> 01:05:09.679
like kids. Well, once a woman she just disappeared. One118401:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.840
day she lost her husband and two children an automobile accident,118501:05:12.880 --> 01:05:15.320
and I calmed her down in seances, talking to her118601:05:15.360 --> 01:05:18.159
dead family, making them seem real. Then one day she118701:05:18.320 --> 01:05:21.599
just disappeared and left a note. She said she was118801:05:21.639 --> 01:05:23.800
going to join them.118901:05:24.039 --> 01:05:25.360
He's sick.119001:05:25.400 --> 01:05:26.440
He's dangerous at all.119101:05:26.519 --> 01:05:27.960
You're trying to intimidate me.119201:05:28.039 --> 01:05:29.320
He doesn't know what's real or not.119301:05:29.480 --> 01:05:30.360
You're jealous again.119401:05:30.519 --> 01:05:32.679
I'm trying to tell you how dangerous it is.119501:05:32.639 --> 01:05:34.239
How dangerous rabit.119601:05:34.480 --> 01:05:36.119
I don't know exactly.119701:05:36.119 --> 01:05:38.440
Will he turned me over to the police was more?119801:05:38.599 --> 01:05:39.159
Something more?119901:05:39.199 --> 01:05:41.400
Will he demand his money back? The money he's paid me.120001:05:42.000 --> 01:05:42.639
I don't know.120101:05:42.760 --> 01:05:44.480
The money means nothing to him.120201:05:45.079 --> 01:05:47.840
He's losing his reason, his what what?120301:05:48.639 --> 01:05:48.840
Oh?120401:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.199
Don't generalize, be specific.120501:05:51.639 --> 01:05:53.199
If you're as smart as you say you are, you120601:05:53.239 --> 01:05:53.760
ought to run.120701:05:53.880 --> 01:05:56.119
Not until I have all of this.120801:05:56.639 --> 01:05:59.360
You can walk out that front door now with me.120901:05:59.639 --> 01:06:01.199
I have to say, staying at what I worked for,121001:06:01.360 --> 01:06:01.920
it's mine.121101:06:02.519 --> 01:06:03.159
You're scared.121201:06:03.239 --> 01:06:06.320
I won't leave, not for anything, not until I'm married121301:06:06.320 --> 01:06:06.639
to him.121401:06:06.920 --> 01:06:08.840
You're really frightened. You're just putting on an act.121501:06:08.920 --> 01:06:12.199
Nothing can make me leave, nothing, nothing, nothing.121601:06:12.400 --> 01:06:14.360
You know I'm right, Please please, Adelaide.121701:06:14.360 --> 01:06:15.480
You know you're a coward.121801:06:15.599 --> 01:06:16.440
You're a cow.121901:06:22.239 --> 01:06:25.119
I should have listened to Robert's warning. I should have.122001:06:25.960 --> 01:06:27.599
But how could I take the advice of a man122101:06:27.639 --> 01:06:32.280
I didn't respect. How I couldn't even accept Robert's advice122201:06:32.280 --> 01:06:35.000
when Edward Porter canceled the seances for one entire day,122301:06:35.559 --> 01:06:37.760
even though he was with me every minute of those122401:06:37.800 --> 01:06:40.960
twenty four hours, even when he sat in a chair122501:06:41.039 --> 01:06:45.599
in my room while I slept, not speaking, just watching,122601:06:46.880 --> 01:06:52.000
always watching. Even then, I couldn't admit Robert was right.122701:06:52.760 --> 01:06:55.239
I had to be right. I had always been right.122801:06:55.880 --> 01:06:58.840
Even though I barely slept. I was afraid to sleep,122901:06:58.920 --> 01:07:04.280
so terribly afraid. Even then, I couldn't admit Robert was right,123001:07:05.239 --> 01:07:06.760
that Edward Porter.123101:07:06.760 --> 01:07:16.199
Was past my control, Adelaide, Adelaide, I'm not asleep, Edward.123201:07:16.760 --> 01:07:21.119
I thought you were. I've been watching you for hours, and.123301:07:21.079 --> 01:07:24.559
I've been watching you too, Edward. I couldn't sleep, so123401:07:24.800 --> 01:07:28.320
very strange, like you didn't trust me.123501:07:28.519 --> 01:07:33.039
Oh, but I do. I do, my dear, my dear Adelaide.123601:07:33.920 --> 01:07:37.159
I trust you more than I've ever trusted any human being.123701:07:37.239 --> 01:07:40.280
I've known what's wrong, what's bothering you?123801:07:41.920 --> 01:07:45.599
How much does this mean to you? Our marriage, this.123901:07:45.599 --> 01:07:49.239
House nothing without you, Edward, and my money only something124001:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.440
to share with you, nothing more nothing.124101:07:52.360 --> 01:07:56.159
You're my life and you are mine? You and John,124201:07:56.920 --> 01:07:57.440
both of you.124301:07:57.519 --> 01:08:01.320
Why do you keep saying that what about John? John124401:08:01.400 --> 01:08:05.119
is dead, Edward, he's waiting, that he's not with us?124501:08:05.400 --> 01:08:05.960
Not really?124601:08:06.519 --> 01:08:08.920
What does John bean to you?124701:08:09.400 --> 01:08:10.079
A son?124801:08:10.880 --> 01:08:11.960
Your son and mine?124901:08:13.039 --> 01:08:14.679
You love him as I love him.125001:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.000
I told you that.125101:08:17.520 --> 01:08:18.720
Why do we have to wait?125201:08:19.000 --> 01:08:20.600
Edward? I don't understand.125301:08:20.760 --> 01:08:22.479
Why must we keep him waiting?125401:08:24.199 --> 01:08:25.479
You can't be serious.125501:08:25.479 --> 01:08:28.920
You've said this world, this material world, meant nothing without me.125601:08:29.079 --> 01:08:33.319
No, No, this is our world, this is the one125701:08:33.359 --> 01:08:33.880
we live in.125801:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.199
What is there to wait for? This is a place125901:08:36.199 --> 01:08:38.479
of evil and sin and corruption? You said, so.126001:08:38.840 --> 01:08:43.279
You showed me that held that put it away. You126101:08:43.520 --> 01:08:47.600
showed me the beautiful world that lies beyond it was exaggerated.126201:08:47.840 --> 01:08:51.560
I mean, understrain and upset, things get distorted. We see126301:08:51.600 --> 01:08:54.680
what we want to. Don't you understand it's not perfect beyond.126401:08:54.720 --> 01:08:55.640
It isn't don't.126501:08:55.439 --> 01:08:58.359
Say that you taught me faith. Don't lose faith now,126601:08:58.640 --> 01:09:00.359
don't be afraid of leaving word.126701:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.279
That's the only world, the only one. There's no extra126801:09:03.399 --> 01:09:05.000
world beyond none.126901:09:05.439 --> 01:09:06.159
It was a lie.127001:09:06.199 --> 01:09:07.520
I only wanted money in position.127101:09:08.039 --> 01:09:10.720
I believe the only money in position, and the rest127201:09:10.760 --> 01:09:11.199
was a lie.127301:09:11.359 --> 01:09:15.840
John's voice, John's voice, my own son's voice. I know127401:09:16.039 --> 01:09:17.800
his voice in a crowd in eternity.127501:09:17.840 --> 01:09:18.640
I know his voice.127601:09:18.680 --> 01:09:19.760
I'll show you, I'll show you.127701:09:19.800 --> 01:09:22.439
It was a lie. Robert McMain is in his wrong.127801:09:22.680 --> 01:09:23.960
Come on, come to his room.127901:09:26.079 --> 01:09:26.600
It's a lie.128001:09:26.680 --> 01:09:27.000
Robert.128101:09:27.199 --> 01:09:31.760
You tell you there's no life beyond Robert, tell him128201:09:31.520 --> 01:09:35.119
that you Robert, Robert, where are you?128301:09:35.319 --> 01:09:39.960
Oh no, oh, no, Cord Cord left.128401:09:40.199 --> 01:09:42.119
It was a lie, a lie.128501:09:42.159 --> 01:09:43.279
It's no life beyond.128601:09:43.600 --> 01:09:48.560
It's not beyond, you're saying.128701:10:00.199 --> 01:10:05.359
H John.128801:10:06.880 --> 01:10:18.920
M Six years it's been just lying here, not able128901:10:18.960 --> 01:10:24.119
to talk to tell my side of it. But now129001:10:24.159 --> 01:10:26.279
it's out. Now you know.129101:10:28.760 --> 01:10:58.720
You judge, You judge whether I did harm.129201:10:59.039 --> 01:11:04.720
Sound spend presented by Auto Light to night Star Miss129301:11:04.760 --> 01:11:09.319
Agnes Moorehead, And here she is again, first Lady of Suspense,129401:11:09.720 --> 01:11:10.920
Miss Morehead, Thank.129501:11:10.800 --> 01:11:15.199
You, Harlow. First Lady of Suspense is a title I'll always.129601:11:15.000 --> 01:11:18.279
Cherish, Agnes. I believe this was your twentieth appearance as129701:11:18.439 --> 01:11:19.359
Star Suspense.129801:11:19.479 --> 01:11:23.399
I guess you're right, Harlow, right with Auto Light. You see,129901:11:23.399 --> 01:11:25.199
I've been here so often. I can do the commercials,130001:11:25.640 --> 01:11:29.199
but seriously, I thoroughly enjoy Suspense and I'm looking forward130101:11:29.239 --> 01:11:29.960
to the next time.130201:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.520
Well it'll be soon, Agnes, because you're an important part130301:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.159
of the big Auto Light family, a friendly family extending130401:11:36.279 --> 01:11:39.319
from coast to coast. In twenty eight Plants auto Light130501:11:39.399 --> 01:11:43.039
makes over four hundred products for cars, trucks, planes and boats,130601:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.920
complete electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many130701:11:47.039 --> 01:11:50.359
leading makes of our finest cars, trucks and tractors. Auto130801:11:50.399 --> 01:11:54.279
Light batteries including the famous auto Light Stay, full ignition,130901:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.239
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backed by constant Auto Light research and precision, built to131101:12:02.039 --> 01:12:06.319
assure top performance. So remember, from bumper to tail light,131201:12:06.800 --> 01:12:19.840
you're always right with auto Light. Next week on Suspense,131301:12:20.079 --> 01:12:23.279
our star will be mister Charles Lawton. In another story131401:12:23.319 --> 01:12:27.319
based on actual events concerning a man historically famous as131501:12:27.359 --> 01:12:31.199
the most notorious poisoner who ever lived. A dramatic report,131601:12:31.239 --> 01:12:36.439
we call Neil Cream doctor of Poison. In weeks to come,131701:12:36.479 --> 01:12:40.039
we shall also present mister Tony Curtis and Miss Gene Crane,131801:12:40.640 --> 01:12:41.359
all on.131901:12:42.800 --> 01:12:43.920
Sauspence.132001:12:47.560 --> 01:12:51.079
Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music132101:12:51.079 --> 01:12:54.920
composed by Lucian Morlick and conducted by lud Gluskin. The132201:12:55.119 --> 01:12:58.439
Evil of Adelaide Winters was written for suspense by Arthur132301:12:58.520 --> 01:13:01.520
Ross in Tonight's story, Sorry her Butterveel was hurt as132401:13:01.560 --> 01:13:03.960
Potter and Joseph Kerns as McMain.132501:13:10.760 --> 01:13:16.359
Well, my dear, I certainly hope we never hear anything132601:13:16.439 --> 01:13:22.600
more of Adelaide. She seems a bit on the troublesome,132701:13:22.600 --> 01:13:28.039
a size I would say. As the night grows later132801:13:28.159 --> 01:13:33.600
and later, I'm just not sure. I'm not sure what's132901:13:33.640 --> 01:13:38.319
coming next, If the sun will rise, or if it133001:13:38.399 --> 01:13:47.159
will hide it's warm, gor poory light, keeping it to itself?133101:13:49.159 --> 01:13:54.680
Will I ever truly flee from evil?133201:13:56.920 --> 01:13:59.399
And now stay hune for the mystery program That is133301:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.960
unique a my all mystery programs, because even when you133401:14:03.039 --> 01:14:06.479
know who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise133501:14:06.640 --> 01:14:11.640
at the final curtain in the Signal Oil program, the133601:14:11.680 --> 01:14:27.520
Whistler signal the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to133701:14:27.560 --> 01:14:33.199
sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.133801:14:50.960 --> 01:14:54.600
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where133901:14:54.600 --> 01:14:55.439
I walk by night.134001:14:56.199 --> 01:14:57.039
I know many.134101:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.720
Strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women134201:14:59.760 --> 01:15:04.159
who stepped into the shadow. Yes, I know the nameless134301:15:04.279 --> 01:15:06.560
terrors of which they dare not speak.134401:15:10.319 --> 01:15:13.800
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange134501:15:13.880 --> 01:15:16.640
story Flee from Evil.134601:15:29.119 --> 01:15:32.279
There was almost complete darkness around the parked car on134701:15:32.319 --> 01:15:35.439
the lonely road on the outskirts of Seattle, and the134801:15:35.479 --> 01:15:38.439
man at the wheel, heavy set and fiftyish, tried to134901:15:38.479 --> 01:15:42.159
peer through this darkness. He couldn't see, but he could135001:15:42.159 --> 01:15:45.479
imagine what was taking place some fifty yards further up135101:15:45.520 --> 01:15:53.439
the road. A raised gun, careful aim, and then the135201:15:53.520 --> 01:15:56.840
shot that Bert Macklin was waiting to hear, shots, followed135301:15:56.840 --> 01:15:59.520
by the sound of running feet. A few moments later,135401:15:59.560 --> 01:16:02.840
Bert's if you had run to the car leaped inside.135501:16:03.119 --> 01:16:04.640
I don't have the motor running, the.135601:16:04.640 --> 01:16:06.439
Car and gear moving forward.135701:16:07.439 --> 01:16:09.960
Swing around, Uncle Bert, Well we'll go back the way135801:16:09.960 --> 01:16:13.840
we came right. You got him here, yes.135901:16:13.720 --> 01:16:15.880
I got hey. Look, God, you're getting off the road.136001:16:15.880 --> 01:16:20.960
We'll get stuck. Gosh, you gotta get out of here.136101:16:21.479 --> 01:16:22.399
You keep stepping on it.136201:16:22.439 --> 01:16:23.399
Now, I'll give her a portion.136301:16:26.159 --> 01:16:39.000
Let up, Let up now, one, two, three, keep.136401:16:38.920 --> 01:16:43.720
Three, let's let's go, Uncle Beet, get us away from here.136501:16:43.840 --> 01:17:00.520
It's fast, Ah, nothing to worry about, Freddy.136601:17:01.760 --> 01:17:04.359
You're sure you took care of him. That's what I136701:17:04.399 --> 01:17:07.800
came here for, all the way from London. Yes, I136801:17:08.279 --> 01:17:08.880
took care of him.136901:17:08.920 --> 01:17:10.920
I'm sure you didn't get a look at him. You know.137001:17:10.920 --> 01:17:12.479
It was too dark, But he was sitting at the137101:17:12.479 --> 01:17:14.720
wheel of his car, and I slipped up alongside.137201:17:14.840 --> 01:17:20.600
I see where. Maybe it's over, really over at last.137301:17:21.199 --> 01:17:23.199
There's no maybe about it.137401:17:22.880 --> 01:17:26.199
All right, But I'll last a month of paying off,137501:17:26.279 --> 01:17:27.640
wondering when i'd be tapped again.137601:17:28.520 --> 01:17:30.680
It doesn't seem possible that I'm rid of him, Freddy.137701:17:31.680 --> 01:17:34.199
Inheriting money does have its drawbacks.137801:17:34.079 --> 01:17:38.920
Decidedly good thing. The fellow was only getting started. Even137901:17:39.039 --> 01:17:41.479
my entire inheritance could go fast that way.138001:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.239
Yeah, you better slow down on Corbette. Were almost into time.138101:17:45.000 --> 01:17:47.760
We'll go directly back to the party. Gives some excuse,138201:17:48.119 --> 01:17:50.800
and Freddy, you've done me a great favor.138301:17:51.079 --> 01:17:53.760
Yes, I'm you're going to show your appreciation, of course,138401:17:54.359 --> 01:17:55.520
our bargain.138501:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.039
You know, I'll never forget this, your health, what you138601:17:59.439 --> 01:18:00.000
just did back.138701:18:00.800 --> 01:18:02.560
It'll be healthier from me here if you do forget138801:18:02.560 --> 01:18:07.399
it right now, killing a man, even a blackmailer where138901:18:07.520 --> 01:18:08.079
some sort.139001:18:07.880 --> 01:18:09.239
Of law, isn't that, Uncle Bert?139101:18:09.800 --> 01:18:13.000
I prefer the other law, the one you mentioned earlier139201:18:13.000 --> 01:18:15.479
this evening, A nye for an eye.139301:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.680
Yes, you did say that, didn't you? Bet an eye139401:18:22.720 --> 01:18:25.600
for an eye? You were quite willing to lend a hand,139501:18:25.800 --> 01:18:26.920
so eager to corperate.139601:18:28.039 --> 01:18:28.640
You feel a.139701:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.319
Surge of confidence back at the house, facing the others139801:18:31.479 --> 01:18:34.239
as Uncle Bert extends his apologies for being away.139901:18:34.399 --> 01:18:37.199
Oh sorry, lie, Veronica, we didn't intend to be gone140001:18:37.199 --> 01:18:37.520
so long.140101:18:37.600 --> 01:18:37.800
You know.140201:18:39.439 --> 01:18:41.560
We went for a spin in Uncle Beth's new car.140301:18:41.720 --> 01:18:44.560
He's already imagining all sorts of things wrong with it,140401:18:44.920 --> 01:18:45.479
not at all.140501:18:45.920 --> 01:18:47.800
I just wanted ready to try it out. He's very140601:18:47.800 --> 01:18:49.000
handy with machines, you know.140701:18:49.439 --> 01:18:51.319
My he is talented, isn't he.140801:18:51.399 --> 01:18:56.840
Oh I don't know, Veronica, I say, where is Uncle Frank? Oh?140901:18:56.880 --> 01:19:00.000
He left here shortly after you said that, he suddenly141001:19:00.079 --> 01:19:01.439
remember the business appointment.141101:19:01.800 --> 01:19:06.800
Oh, a business appointment. Frank had a business appointment.141201:19:06.399 --> 01:19:09.319
But must have been rather important for him to walk141301:19:09.319 --> 01:19:12.039
out when so many drinks are being passed around drinks.141401:19:12.159 --> 01:19:13.520
Oh, now, look here, Freddy.141501:19:13.720 --> 01:19:16.680
If any drinks were passed, they were passed right by me.141601:19:17.680 --> 01:19:20.039
Oh, I'm sorry. What we told missus fellow who act141701:19:20.079 --> 01:19:21.319
as hosted two? We got beat?141801:19:21.800 --> 01:19:24.720
Oh, your uncle's housekeeper made it quite clear to us141901:19:24.880 --> 01:19:27.279
that if we wanted any drinks while you two were gone,142001:19:27.319 --> 01:19:30.439
we'd have to fix them ourselves. Dinner, she said, is142101:19:30.479 --> 01:19:32.600
the only thing she'd attend to this evening.142201:19:32.680 --> 01:19:33.239
Oh did she?142301:19:33.720 --> 01:19:33.840
Well?142401:19:33.920 --> 01:19:36.199
I told her we'd only begun a little while the142501:19:36.279 --> 01:19:37.319
old God.142601:19:37.039 --> 01:19:38.720
We come, now, Freddy, we.142701:19:38.760 --> 01:19:40.800
Go attend to the drinks right away? Why don't we142801:19:40.840 --> 01:19:41.600
all go into the bar?142901:19:42.039 --> 01:19:43.000
Wonderful idea?143001:19:43.800 --> 01:19:44.399
Are you coming?143101:19:44.479 --> 01:19:51.760
Uncle Ben? Uncle Bert? Eh? Oh? Oh, yes, Freddy, just143201:19:51.800 --> 01:19:54.560
a minute. What's the matter Frank?143301:19:55.720 --> 01:19:56.039
Freddy?143401:19:57.159 --> 01:19:59.800
You don't suppose Frank's one uncle Frank?143501:20:00.319 --> 01:20:00.359
What?143601:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.640
No, I never thought of that. It is funny he's143701:20:04.680 --> 01:20:07.000
having a business appointment just after we left the party143801:20:07.039 --> 01:20:08.920
to keep our appointment with your black man.143901:20:09.039 --> 01:20:12.039
It could have been. You know, we'll find out soon enough.144001:20:12.800 --> 01:20:16.479
There's not much we can do now, No, I'm comfort144101:20:17.159 --> 01:20:20.920
uncle Frank. Frank's not really your own call Fuddie. He's144201:20:21.000 --> 01:20:21.800
my half brother.144301:20:22.760 --> 01:20:25.319
I wouldn't put it past him sponging off made the144401:20:25.359 --> 01:20:26.119
way he's been doing.144501:20:26.159 --> 01:20:29.239
Those who could that be? It's nest to.144601:20:29.159 --> 01:20:36.920
See nathing gentlemen, let's see now you'd be mister Britt144701:20:36.960 --> 01:20:38.680
Macklin and you'd be mister Frank.144801:20:39.039 --> 01:20:40.720
What is it, my kind.144901:20:42.319 --> 01:20:47.159
Sydney Hawker, private investigator? I don't understand, mister Hawker.145001:20:47.000 --> 01:20:47.359
You will.145101:20:48.439 --> 01:20:50.159
I'd like to commend for a little talk if you145201:20:50.199 --> 01:20:50.960
don't mind.145301:20:50.720 --> 01:20:53.039
Well, that's quite impossible. We have dinner, guess.145401:20:53.359 --> 01:20:56.319
Of course, naturally you wouldn't want them to hear what145501:20:56.399 --> 01:20:57.039
I had to say.145601:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.319
Now, see here, what is the nature of your business?145701:20:59.319 --> 01:21:02.159
Hey? At all ties in rather neatly with that little145801:21:02.159 --> 01:21:04.520
display you and Freddy here put on a little while145901:21:04.600 --> 01:21:09.000
ago in the outskirts of town of fred. I think146001:21:09.000 --> 01:21:15.039
we'd best step outside, close the door. Oh, mister Hawker,146101:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.279
if you'll get to the point, Well, that's shooting. A146201:21:17.279 --> 01:21:21.079
little while ago. That was me that Freddie boy humped146301:21:21.119 --> 01:21:24.720
those bullets into or rather was my overcoat. You'll notice146401:21:24.760 --> 01:21:25.199
the holes.146501:21:25.600 --> 01:21:25.920
What's it?146601:21:26.600 --> 01:21:26.800
Yeah?146701:21:26.840 --> 01:21:27.920
I rolled up.146801:21:27.880 --> 01:21:31.319
A few blankets, put my overcoat around them, my hat146901:21:31.399 --> 01:21:32.680
on top, and.147001:21:32.760 --> 01:21:36.560
Left it slumped over the wheel of the car. I147101:21:36.600 --> 01:21:38.840
shot at a dummy. I see.147201:21:39.159 --> 01:21:41.319
It's nearly acting on behalf of my client.147301:21:41.520 --> 01:21:42.640
Client. That's right.147401:21:43.359 --> 01:21:46.279
These days, I'm forced to take anything that comes along147501:21:47.439 --> 01:21:48.479
out of the business at hand.147601:21:48.600 --> 01:21:48.840
Jains.147701:21:49.640 --> 01:21:52.680
As you know, my client has definitely proof, mister Macklin,147801:21:52.800 --> 01:21:55.640
that the death of a former associate of yours was147901:21:55.720 --> 01:22:00.439
anything but accidental. Your former associate's name was Edward Wilson.148001:22:01.119 --> 01:22:04.439
This information could be dropped into a mailbox.148101:22:03.920 --> 01:22:09.640
To the police unless I pay to see Freddy it148201:22:09.760 --> 01:22:13.560
isn't over. But he want, mister Hawker, how much well148301:22:13.840 --> 01:22:16.800
my client fields in view of what's happened this evening,148401:22:16.880 --> 01:22:20.800
the attempted murder that this payment should.148501:22:20.560 --> 01:22:24.119
Be five thousand, five thousand. Think it's the uncle good.148601:22:24.880 --> 01:22:28.840
I haven't any choice. Where do we deliver the money,148701:22:28.840 --> 01:22:29.399
mister Hawker?148801:22:29.640 --> 01:22:33.279
My office will do Freddy boy say about nine tomorrow evening?148901:22:34.520 --> 01:22:43.279
Goodn't I jen win wicked? Freddy be through funny funny?149001:22:43.680 --> 01:22:45.079
I fail to see the humor of it.149101:22:45.239 --> 01:22:50.840
Oh, I mean I'm not a murderer of all, am I.149201:22:49.800 --> 01:22:53.000
No, that's right, you're not.149301:23:01.239 --> 01:23:04.840
During dinner, you watch your uncle Bert close his eyes149401:23:04.960 --> 01:23:08.279
wander about the team, settling on one ghast and then another.149501:23:08.920 --> 01:23:11.880
And you know what he's thinking about, don't you. Uncle149601:23:11.960 --> 01:23:13.960
Frank could still be the blackmailer.149701:23:14.000 --> 01:23:14.399
Couldn't be?149801:23:14.880 --> 01:23:17.479
You know that thought is going through your uncle Bert's mother.149901:23:18.359 --> 01:23:22.000
Then there's Lloyd Giller's an associate at the Lumberman. He150001:23:22.039 --> 01:23:26.359
could be mister Hacker's client. Yeah, either one of them150101:23:26.439 --> 01:23:29.399
could know about Bert's dead Collie, the one who was150201:23:29.399 --> 01:23:33.760
supposed was committed suicide. And occasionally, Freddy, you feel Uncle150301:23:33.800 --> 01:23:42.199
Bert's eyes around you too. Dinner over, you take Veronica home,150401:23:42.760 --> 01:23:46.199
then return to the house. Fine, uncle Bert has something150501:23:46.199 --> 01:23:50.960
on his mind, Freddy. Hmmm, this girl Veronica, what do150601:23:50.960 --> 01:23:51.600
you know about her?150701:23:52.159 --> 01:23:52.399
Well?150801:23:52.680 --> 01:23:55.039
Or how much does one to know about anyone you150901:23:55.079 --> 01:23:56.239
meet on a boat's clipment?151001:23:57.119 --> 01:23:59.439
Why? I was just wondering about her.151101:24:00.000 --> 01:24:02.560
I mean you think that she could No, it's a151201:24:02.640 --> 01:24:05.439
nonsense suit. You just here visiting at six sister, helping151301:24:05.439 --> 01:24:07.439
out for a bit, that's or no, if you ask me,151401:24:07.520 --> 01:24:08.800
Uncle Frank's you're a blackmailer.151501:24:08.920 --> 01:24:13.359
It couldn't be anybody, Freddy, even you me.151601:24:14.560 --> 01:24:17.760
Oh now, really, isn't that a bit thick? And you're151701:24:17.760 --> 01:24:19.399
forgetting You asked me to come here all the way151801:24:19.399 --> 01:24:21.720
from London a month ago to help you out.151901:24:21.800 --> 01:24:23.520
Yes, I did ask you. We made a bargain.152001:24:23.520 --> 01:24:25.319
You were to help me get this blackmailer off my152101:24:25.399 --> 01:24:27.560
neck and return I was to make you my sole heir.152201:24:27.720 --> 01:24:27.960
Yes.152301:24:28.239 --> 01:24:30.359
And if I might point out, you had already been152401:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.520
approached by the blackmailer while I was still in London,152501:24:32.520 --> 01:24:32.920
that's right.152601:24:33.159 --> 01:24:36.760
I had been approached, but through an intermediary, and something152701:24:36.760 --> 01:24:39.279
else happened. Thinking about why should a blackmailer share his152801:24:39.319 --> 01:24:41.600
good fortune with the go between her because he doesn't152901:24:41.640 --> 01:24:43.600
wish to reveal his identity to me, or because he153001:24:43.640 --> 01:24:45.239
doesn't happen to be on the scene at the moment.153101:24:45.399 --> 01:24:50.239
He could be anywhere, even in London, Freddy, Oh really,153201:24:50.359 --> 01:24:54.359
Uncle Bert, you're letting this thing get you. No, you153301:24:54.359 --> 01:24:58.199
you better stick with uncle Frankly. You're a blackmailer. Well,153401:24:58.840 --> 01:25:02.520
I'm going to turn him from sleep. You'll have the153501:25:02.760 --> 01:25:06.600
money tomorrow night. Yes, I'll see what I can do.153601:25:07.479 --> 01:25:16.520
Good night, Freddy, you're worried aren't you, Frett, Because the153701:25:16.560 --> 01:25:19.399
thing that brought you here from London, your Uncle Bert's153801:25:19.399 --> 01:25:21.560
money you promise to leave you in his will, is153901:25:21.560 --> 01:25:26.119
slowly slipping away and you're powerless to prevent him. Yes,154001:25:26.359 --> 01:25:30.199
uncle Bert's past is threatening your future, and you're even154101:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.479
more certain of it. The following evening, as you sit154201:25:32.560 --> 01:25:35.800
in Sid Hawker's office and wait as he calls his.154301:25:35.800 --> 01:25:53.319
Client, Allow, this is hacker. Yes he's here now, but154401:25:53.359 --> 01:25:56.880
with only half the money. I know, But he says154501:25:56.880 --> 01:25:58.159
the rest is tied up at the moment.154601:25:58.159 --> 01:25:59.960
If it'll be a week at least before he can manage,154701:26:00.439 --> 01:26:02.159
he says, you'll have the rest in another week.154801:26:03.920 --> 01:26:10.760
Man man, got it. My client isn't very happy, Freddie boy.154901:26:10.800 --> 01:26:12.920
But he is giving us more time.155001:26:13.000 --> 01:26:21.319
One week, Freddie boy, no more.155101:26:23.039 --> 01:26:25.119
It's while you're walking back to the house that an155201:26:25.159 --> 01:26:26.039
idea strikes you.155301:26:26.119 --> 01:26:29.680
Sup. You want to find uncle Bert's black theater, don't you.155401:26:30.199 --> 01:26:33.880
Yes, But instead of getting rid of him, you wondered155501:26:33.920 --> 01:26:37.880
about joining forces with him. Then you could start collecting155601:26:37.920 --> 01:26:40.640
on uncle Bert's money now, rather than wait years to155701:26:40.680 --> 01:26:44.439
inherit it. Inside the house, you hurry to the telephone,155801:26:44.840 --> 01:26:46.760
pick it up and toy with a.155901:26:46.760 --> 01:26:49.279
Dial counting the clicks.156001:26:52.600 --> 01:26:55.399
Interesting, isn't this, Frett? If you can learn to count156101:26:55.439 --> 01:26:58.720
the clicks perfectly and listen again when sid Hacker calls156201:26:58.760 --> 01:27:02.399
his clients, and then remember the sound pattern you have, it,156301:27:02.439 --> 01:27:05.720
wouldn't you Fred the phone number of your uncle's blackmailer.156401:27:06.520 --> 01:27:09.640
Once you know that Fred, you can contact the blackmailer directly,156501:27:10.399 --> 01:27:14.479
offer him your valuable assistance in blackmailing Uncle Bert, and156601:27:14.680 --> 01:27:15.720
split the money with it.156701:27:17.920 --> 01:27:30.720
One two, three four By George. I think I can156801:27:30.800 --> 01:27:34.640
count the clicks. I think I can do it. With156901:27:34.840 --> 01:27:36.960
a little more practice, I know I can do it.157001:27:37.720 --> 01:27:56.760
After that, I'll have everyone just where I want them.157101:27:57.039 --> 01:28:02.479
Extra pep batra pep. Make those heels in high. Put157201:28:02.600 --> 01:28:06.880
signal ethel in your car and it will really fly.157301:28:09.239 --> 01:28:11.720
If you're surprised to hear me sing, just wait till157401:28:11.720 --> 01:28:13.800
you hear your car thing when you treat it to157501:28:13.840 --> 01:28:17.199
its first tank full of signal ethyl yes with the157601:28:17.199 --> 01:28:21.079
premium grade of signals famous go farther gasoline in your tank.157701:28:21.479 --> 01:28:24.119
It'll be music to your ears. When you touch the157801:28:24.199 --> 01:28:28.319
starter on cold morning, Presto, your motor starts.157901:28:28.079 --> 01:28:30.520
Humming a tune quicker and you can turn on your radio.158001:28:31.159 --> 01:28:34.520
When it comes to acceleration, signal ethyl will show you158101:28:34.600 --> 01:28:38.239
pep that makes even Dixie Land Jazz seem taped. And158201:28:38.319 --> 01:28:40.880
the knock free power of signal ethyl will send you158301:28:40.960 --> 01:28:44.760
uphills as smoothly and effortlessly as a coloratura from the158401:28:44.800 --> 01:28:48.960
met sores to high seeds. And why not, after all,158501:28:49.079 --> 01:28:51.880
signal ethyl is engineered to bring out the best in158601:28:51.960 --> 01:28:52.479
any car.158701:28:53.279 --> 01:28:54.520
So if it's best.158801:28:54.279 --> 01:28:58.279
Performance you want, just remember the famous last verse of158901:28:58.319 --> 01:29:03.800
that great shower room baritone Marvin Miller. So further and159001:29:04.119 --> 01:29:09.520
have on enjoy your every spin to get more out159101:29:09.560 --> 01:29:12.319
of any car protignal Apple.159201:29:12.600 --> 01:29:34.319
And it's been a trial, hasn't it said from the beginning.159301:29:33.920 --> 01:29:35.960
When you first discovered that your uncle.159401:29:35.760 --> 01:29:40.640
Bert was being blackmailed and your own future fortunes threatened. Yes,159501:29:40.840 --> 01:29:43.439
you were willing to commit murder to prevent it. But159601:29:43.560 --> 01:29:46.960
the attempted murder backfire and the blackmailer doubled his price.159701:29:47.920 --> 01:29:50.039
But now you feel your in command again that your159801:29:50.039 --> 01:29:53.520
little plan will pay off a few days of practice.159901:29:53.840 --> 01:29:56.039
And you can tell any phone number now when you160001:29:56.079 --> 01:29:59.279
hear it being dial by carrying the clicks, remembering the160101:29:59.359 --> 01:30:03.359
sound patter. Yes, all you have to do is listen carefully.160201:30:03.399 --> 01:30:05.680
The next time you're with Sid Hawker when he calls160301:30:05.720 --> 01:30:10.199
his client. Then a great idea hit you. True, it's160401:30:10.199 --> 01:30:13.279
a dangerous one. Something could go wrong, but it's worth160501:30:13.279 --> 01:30:16.680
considering carefully, isn't it? And it's constantly on your mind160601:30:16.680 --> 01:30:19.760
and the days that follows. Then, on the evening of.160701:30:19.720 --> 01:30:21.800
Your appointment with Hawker to pay the rest.160801:30:21.560 --> 01:30:24.039
Of the money you promise, you step into the study160901:30:24.520 --> 01:30:27.880
find Uncle Bert standing at the window, staring out into161001:30:27.920 --> 01:30:32.439
the night. It's almost eight, Uncle Bert, Oh, freddie, where161101:30:32.479 --> 01:30:34.279
haven't I better be getting over to Hawkers.161201:30:34.600 --> 01:30:37.520
You don't have to be there till nine such you161301:30:37.520 --> 01:30:38.720
won't get there at all?161401:30:38.720 --> 01:30:40.800
You mean you didn't manage to get the rest of161501:30:40.840 --> 01:30:41.199
the money.161601:30:41.199 --> 01:30:43.079
Oh, I got it all right. It's just that I'm161701:30:43.119 --> 01:30:45.239
not certain I want to turn it over to Hawker's client.161801:30:46.000 --> 01:30:47.680
Been trying to make up my mind all day on.161901:30:47.840 --> 01:30:48.960
Now look here, Uncle Bert.162001:30:49.000 --> 01:30:51.880
I know, I know if I don't pay up, mister162101:30:51.920 --> 01:30:53.319
Hacker's client will expose me.162201:30:53.960 --> 01:30:56.359
Perhaps that's what I really want. Get it, double it162301:30:56.439 --> 01:30:59.000
once and for all. Why should I go on paying162401:30:59.039 --> 01:31:01.399
and paying and saying he'll bleed me? Why?162501:31:01.479 --> 01:31:03.359
But I thought we'd agreed the other day that you'd162601:31:03.399 --> 01:31:05.439
go on paying for a while at least and bide162701:31:05.439 --> 01:31:07.960
your time. He's bound to make a mistake, I could162801:31:08.000 --> 01:31:10.359
be sure. No, I say, pay off this chap. Pay162901:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.279
as long as you're able. It's better than the noose.163001:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.359
M I don't know. I don't know.163101:31:17.079 --> 01:31:19.520
It will take time and money, but it'll be worth it.163201:31:19.720 --> 01:31:22.920
Perhaps you're right, Freddy. We'll catch up to mister Hawker's clients.163301:31:23.119 --> 01:31:24.720
You'll see, all right.163401:31:25.439 --> 01:31:28.159
Bring the car around, I'll get the money out of163501:31:28.159 --> 01:31:28.520
the safe.163601:31:29.880 --> 01:31:38.000
Why uncle Bert had you worried for a moment, didn't163701:31:38.039 --> 01:31:38.279
he fret?163801:31:38.960 --> 01:31:40.600
Yes, you saw your.163901:31:40.600 --> 01:31:44.159
Entire plan collapse and all that easy money slipping from164001:31:44.159 --> 01:31:47.840
your grass. But suddenly it was already and Uncle Bert164101:31:47.880 --> 01:31:51.239
agreed to go on paying his black nail. Now, with164201:31:51.399 --> 01:31:54.399
the money tucked away in your coat pocket, you drive164301:31:54.479 --> 01:31:56.960
downtown to Hawker's office.164401:31:58.399 --> 01:31:59.439
Good evening, mister Hawker.164501:32:00.039 --> 01:32:03.640
Well, mister Macklin, Johnny on the spotty and with the money.164601:32:03.439 --> 01:32:06.640
Johnny on the spot Yes, with the money. No, what's164701:32:06.680 --> 01:32:08.520
this now? You see, mister hacker, Uncle had a bit164801:32:08.560 --> 01:32:09.800
of difficulty raising the money.164901:32:09.840 --> 01:32:13.800
Now see here I ask is a few hours I see.165001:32:14.439 --> 01:32:16.479
Do you think that will be agreeable for your client?165101:32:16.560 --> 01:32:17.079
Mister Hawker?165201:32:17.279 --> 01:32:20.119
It might be, and then again it might not, don't165301:32:20.159 --> 01:32:22.640
you ask your client? All right?165401:32:22.920 --> 01:32:26.760
And well, you sit at the edge of the death.165501:32:26.960 --> 01:32:29.600
Try to appear calm. As Hawker stepped to the telephone.165601:32:30.840 --> 01:32:33.439
You listen carefully as he dials.165701:32:46.600 --> 01:32:50.600
Well, this is sin hacken man, there's been a delay.165801:32:50.840 --> 01:32:53.279
Mister Macklin's having a better trouble raising the money.165901:32:53.560 --> 01:32:53.800
One.166001:32:54.920 --> 01:32:57.520
Oh no, no, only once is a little more time.166101:32:58.000 --> 01:33:05.279
Huh man, Let me talk to your client. I only166201:33:05.319 --> 01:33:05.680
wanted to.166301:33:06.039 --> 01:33:10.479
I'll answer any questions you have. Is that clear as166401:33:10.520 --> 01:33:13.399
you wish? You'll just have to call your client again.166501:33:13.680 --> 01:33:14.439
I can afford it.166601:33:15.359 --> 01:33:18.920
Well, my uncle is ready to make a settlement the night.166701:33:19.800 --> 01:33:22.279
He's willing to pay twenty thousand dollars if your client166801:33:22.319 --> 01:33:24.720
will turn over every shred of evidence he holds against166901:33:24.760 --> 01:33:27.640
my uncle and drop the matter once and for all167001:33:27.840 --> 01:33:34.119
twenty thousand. Well that sounds reasonable. Well suppose you see167101:33:34.159 --> 01:33:36.159
if your client thinks so right?167201:33:36.560 --> 01:33:39.079
Not mind, you're no tricks, no tricks.167301:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.800
You've got to make certain, don't you. And you listen167401:33:43.880 --> 01:33:47.079
careful as he dials the number again. It's the same167501:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.960
number he dial before. There's no mistake, and you're confident167601:33:51.039 --> 01:33:53.439
now you'll be able to dial that same number when167701:33:53.439 --> 01:33:54.439
the time comes.167801:33:55.439 --> 01:33:58.279
Well, it's a honker, it's a gravel. But my client167901:33:58.319 --> 01:34:00.880
wants the money delivered here by all the nights. Good.168001:34:01.079 --> 01:34:10.239
I'll see you then, mister Hawker, you hurry out of168101:34:10.279 --> 01:34:14.079
the office downstairs into your car. From the glove compartment,168201:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.760
you remove a gun. You slip it into your pocket.168301:34:17.439 --> 01:34:20.000
As you start back. You see Hawker walk out of168401:34:20.000 --> 01:34:22.199
the building head for the parking lot in the rear.168501:34:22.680 --> 01:34:24.279
Quickly you move after him.168601:34:24.680 --> 01:34:27.439
Then in the darkness behind the building, you catch up168701:34:27.439 --> 01:34:29.399
to him as he slides in behind the wheel of168801:34:29.439 --> 01:34:29.840
his car.168901:34:30.840 --> 01:34:34.239
Or Howker, h oh, it's you. Hey, I see how169001:34:34.279 --> 01:34:35.239
the other gun. Move over?169101:34:36.159 --> 01:34:36.760
What are you doing?169201:34:36.760 --> 01:34:38.720
I said, move over? That's a good chat.169301:34:39.479 --> 01:34:41.479
Per start up, Howker.169401:34:42.159 --> 01:34:43.520
We're going for a bit of a spin.169501:34:55.560 --> 01:34:59.000
I think this will do Hawker and I start deserted roads.169601:34:59.760 --> 01:35:00.920
Then it plays for a chap.169701:35:01.359 --> 01:35:02.119
What's the idea?169801:35:02.279 --> 01:35:03.159
Pull over? All man?169901:35:04.479 --> 01:35:04.840
All right?170001:35:07.039 --> 01:35:07.239
Now?170101:35:07.279 --> 01:35:07.319
What?170201:35:07.760 --> 01:35:07.920
Well?170301:35:07.960 --> 01:35:10.680
First off, that that business about uncle wanting to make170401:35:10.720 --> 01:35:12.880
a settlement. That was a bit of a trick on170501:35:12.920 --> 01:35:13.399
my partner.170601:35:13.439 --> 01:35:14.000
I said, why.170701:35:14.239 --> 01:35:16.359
Yes, you see, I was merely interested in having you170801:35:16.479 --> 01:35:17.600
dial that phone again.170901:35:17.640 --> 01:35:18.760
What are you talking about?171001:35:19.079 --> 01:35:20.840
I had to make certain I had the right number,171101:35:21.319 --> 01:35:23.520
you see, Hawker, by simply listening to the dial as171201:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.640
it spins, counting the number of flicks. You mean you can, Yes, yes,171301:35:27.720 --> 01:35:29.960
I can dial that number again with very little difficulty.171401:35:30.800 --> 01:35:34.199
Now are you going to tell me who the blackmailer is?171501:35:35.079 --> 01:35:37.680
Or must I find out for myself?171601:35:37.720 --> 01:35:38.920
You don't know yet?171701:35:39.279 --> 01:35:41.760
Would it be Frank MacLean by AA chut let me171801:35:41.840 --> 01:35:45.159
see or Lloyd Killis have never heard of him.171901:35:45.680 --> 01:35:48.439
I don't recognize the number at all. Of course, it172001:35:48.479 --> 01:35:50.880
could be a booth somewhere or a little hide away172101:35:51.239 --> 01:35:52.680
and the part I wouldn't know.172201:35:53.479 --> 01:35:53.880
I see.172301:35:54.920 --> 01:35:56.720
Well, if you won't cooperate, I shall have to find172401:35:56.720 --> 01:35:59.720
out by calling and other sertain I recognize the voice,172501:35:59.760 --> 01:36:00.359
and I will.172601:36:00.239 --> 01:36:02.640
Be most careful not to review my own identity. Of course,172701:36:03.159 --> 01:36:05.239
now that that's settled, what more do you want with me?172801:36:05.600 --> 01:36:05.880
I know?172901:36:05.960 --> 01:36:07.119
Good anymore? That's right.173001:36:08.000 --> 01:36:10.000
However, as much as I tend to do business with173101:36:10.039 --> 01:36:10.840
your client.173201:36:10.760 --> 01:36:14.359
Sort of partnership arrangement in the near future, so that's it.173301:36:15.439 --> 01:36:17.399
You're going to be part of the scheme from now.173401:36:17.479 --> 01:36:21.079
I yes, and my plans do not include you. I'm173501:36:21.119 --> 01:36:25.640
afraid is that upset you? Yes, I'm sure it does.173601:36:26.720 --> 01:36:29.279
Now I shouldn't want you around, mister Hawker to slip173701:36:29.279 --> 01:36:31.680
the word to dear Uncle Bert and tell him what.173801:36:31.720 --> 01:36:35.159
I'm doing here. What do you mean obvious? Quite ours?173901:36:35.840 --> 01:36:36.079
No?174001:36:36.039 --> 01:36:38.840
No, no, I'm sorry, mister Hawker. As you so aptly174101:36:38.880 --> 01:36:40.960
put it, you ain't no good to me anymore.174201:36:54.359 --> 01:36:58.079
While watching some Christmas shoppers, I couldn't help thinking if174301:36:58.119 --> 01:37:01.279
folks shop is carefully for automal bial batteries as they174401:37:01.319 --> 01:37:04.920
do for Christmas gifts, practically all drivers will decide on174501:37:05.039 --> 01:37:09.479
Signal Deluxe batteries. Just compare the power of various batteries,174601:37:09.840 --> 01:37:12.840
you'll find Signal Deluxe batteries give up the thirty five174701:37:12.920 --> 01:37:16.479
percent more power for quicker starting and to take care174801:37:16.479 --> 01:37:19.760
of your radio and other electrical gadgets. That's because of174901:37:19.840 --> 01:37:23.479
signals micropolus all rubber separators, which have been called the175001:37:23.520 --> 01:37:27.479
greatest battery improvement in twenty years. Compare the life of175101:37:27.600 --> 01:37:31.039
various batteries, you will see that Signal Deluxe batteries are175201:37:31.039 --> 01:37:33.319
guaranteed up to two and one half times as long175301:37:33.359 --> 01:37:37.319
as ordinary batteries a full thirty months on a service basis,175401:37:37.800 --> 01:37:40.960
which also means that the cost per months is amazingly low,175501:37:41.520 --> 01:37:44.279
even lower when you deduct the trade and allowance. Signal175601:37:44.279 --> 01:37:47.800
dealers are giving for old batteries, and liberal credit terms175701:37:47.800 --> 01:37:51.920
are available. No wonder more and more shoppers drivers who175801:37:51.960 --> 01:37:57.600
really compare batteries are choosing signal Deluxe batteries at signal175901:37:57.760 --> 01:38:16.079
service stations.176001:38:16.640 --> 01:38:19.359
It's done, isn't it. Thread Hawker is dead. The thread176101:38:19.359 --> 01:38:21.800
has been removed, and he lies buried.176201:38:21.520 --> 01:38:23.640
In the shallow grave on the outskirts of town.176301:38:24.520 --> 01:38:26.640
Now all you have to do is call the blackmail176401:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.159
and once you've learned his identity without revealing your own,176501:38:30.720 --> 01:38:34.279
you expect to approach him again later cautiously inform him176601:38:34.279 --> 01:38:37.279
of your plan for a partnership to continue to blackmail176701:38:37.319 --> 01:38:41.439
your uncle together, and you certainly will refuse because you176801:38:41.560 --> 01:38:45.159
then reveal his identity to Uncle Bert. You drive back176901:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.319
to town park Hawker's car and the lot behind his177001:38:48.359 --> 01:38:52.039
office building, and then hurry upstairs. As you sit at177101:38:52.039 --> 01:38:54.880
Hawker's desk, you glance at your watch and a smile177201:38:55.000 --> 01:38:59.439
covers your face. Yes, you're confidence now that you've made177301:38:59.439 --> 01:39:00.000
the right to say.177401:39:00.840 --> 01:39:06.119
An't you hello, Freddy? Uncle Bert? What are you doing here?177501:39:06.319 --> 01:39:07.439
Looking for sid Hawker?177601:39:07.560 --> 01:39:09.399
I thought I might persuade him to tell me who177701:39:09.399 --> 01:39:13.560
the blackmailer is, confirm my suspicions with this. Oh, no,177801:39:14.000 --> 01:39:16.760
Uncle Brett, to put that gun away. Hawker's not here,177901:39:17.000 --> 01:39:19.560
so I see delivering the money to his client.178001:39:19.600 --> 01:39:22.560
I suppose, yes. I think you should know, Freddy, that178101:39:22.600 --> 01:39:25.239
I contacted the police tonight. What.178201:39:25.640 --> 01:39:28.239
Yes, I told the police why I was being blackmail178301:39:28.279 --> 01:39:30.520
But I killed a man some time ago. I was178401:39:30.560 --> 01:39:32.760
going to give myself up, and I was going to178501:39:32.760 --> 01:39:36.159
get the blackmailer first. That's why I came here. I178601:39:36.279 --> 01:39:38.279
was sure Hawker could lead me to the blackmailer. But178701:39:38.560 --> 01:39:40.079
I thought that I was going to go.178801:39:40.039 --> 01:39:41.439
On paying now.178901:39:41.520 --> 01:39:44.399
I decided against that shortly after you left the house tonight.179001:39:44.600 --> 01:39:49.079
Oh really, Well that I wasn't very clever. No, and179101:39:49.159 --> 01:39:50.720
you're going to regret it, Freddy.179201:39:51.479 --> 01:39:52.239
What Oh?179301:39:52.279 --> 01:39:54.359
I have suspected for a long time you were behind179401:39:54.399 --> 01:39:58.960
all this. Well, that's ridiculous it Let's see if my179501:39:59.039 --> 01:40:02.720
hunt is right. Empty your pocket my pockets and I'll179601:40:02.720 --> 01:40:03.960
give you three.179701:40:03.880 --> 01:40:09.760
Now wait, wait, one? Two? All right? All right? That's better.179801:40:12.079 --> 01:40:17.119
Yeah, you do have the money. My hunt was right,179901:40:17.720 --> 01:40:21.479
I can explain. So Harker paid off his client. Eh180001:40:21.560 --> 01:40:21.960
I could bear.180101:40:23.279 --> 01:40:25.239
No, I could forgive you stealing money from me, but180201:40:25.399 --> 01:40:26.399
not blackmailing me.180301:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.399
Freddy, you don't understand this. I haven't blackmailed you.180401:40:29.800 --> 01:40:32.199
Look, I'll find the blackmailer for you.180501:40:32.399 --> 01:40:34.039
None of your tricks. Put that phone down.180601:40:33.880 --> 01:40:35.840
But then let me call a number. I swear you'll180701:40:35.840 --> 01:40:37.760
hear the blackmailer's voice with your only.180801:40:37.800 --> 01:40:40.359
I'm not that stupid me for for a trick like that.180901:40:40.920 --> 01:40:42.880
And it is a trick, isn't it, Freddy, I want181001:40:42.880 --> 01:40:44.600
to catch me off. God, get close enough to me181101:40:44.640 --> 01:40:45.640
so you can get this gun.181201:40:45.800 --> 01:40:46.920
No, it's not a trick.181301:40:48.159 --> 01:40:53.239
All right, we'll see, but you'd better not try any tricks.181401:40:53.880 --> 01:40:54.479
I'll listen in.181501:40:54.720 --> 01:40:58.960
Yes, but on this extension phone over here, Remember, Freddy,181601:40:59.720 --> 01:41:02.760
I'll have this gun on you. I've already confessed one181701:41:02.840 --> 01:41:05.319
murder of the police. Another one won't matter much.181801:41:06.479 --> 01:41:08.720
Go ahead, make your call.181901:41:17.359 --> 01:41:20.560
Everything depends on this phone call, doesn't it. Press your182001:41:20.600 --> 01:41:23.520
hand is kidded? Sure as you die, you know there182101:41:23.560 --> 01:41:24.520
can't be a mistake.182201:41:24.960 --> 01:41:25.840
But this is the number.182301:41:25.920 --> 01:41:29.279
Hocker calls yes, setin it's the phone number of his client,182401:41:29.479 --> 01:41:30.199
the blackmailer.182501:41:31.239 --> 01:41:36.039
At the tone, the time will be ten nine and182601:41:36.319 --> 01:41:37.880
forty seconds.182701:41:40.159 --> 01:41:46.359
Hawker. Hawker was the blackmailer all the time. No, it182801:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.760
was you, Freddy that phone call.182901:41:48.800 --> 01:41:54.520
You just made us a trick, and a very stupid one.183001:41:55.439 --> 01:41:56.520
No, Michael Bert.183101:41:56.399 --> 01:42:07.960
Right at the tone, the time will be ten ten exactly.183201:42:32.640 --> 01:42:35.640
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil183301:42:35.680 --> 01:42:39.039
program The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time.183401:42:40.359 --> 01:42:43.439
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you if183501:42:43.439 --> 01:42:45.720
there's an easy way we can all help to make183601:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.920
this holiday season happier.183701:42:47.479 --> 01:42:49.079
For ourselves and others.183801:42:49.880 --> 01:42:54.399
Drive at sensible speeds, be courteous, and obey traffic regulations.183901:42:54.920 --> 01:43:13.640
It may save a life, possibly your own. Featured in184001:43:13.680 --> 01:43:18.800
Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Ben Wright, Ed Begley, Constance Cavendish,184101:43:19.000 --> 01:43:22.359
and ted Dy Corcier. The Whistler was produced and directed184201:43:22.399 --> 01:43:26.199
by George w Allen, with story by Adrian John Doe,184301:43:26.600 --> 01:43:28.720
music by Wilber Hatch, and was.184401:43:28.640 --> 01:43:31.039
Transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed.184501:43:30.920 --> 01:43:35.479
Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional and.184601:43:35.479 --> 01:43:37.880
All characters portrayed on the whistler.184701:43:37.399 --> 01:43:38.439
Are also fictional.184801:43:39.159 --> 01:43:42.520
Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or184901:43:42.560 --> 01:43:44.239
dead is purely coincidental.185001:43:46.119 --> 01:43:50.920
Well, my dear, it appears perhaps evil is harder to185101:43:51.119 --> 01:43:57.079
escape than one might imagine. But well, I suppose you185201:43:57.279 --> 01:44:04.880
can try. The night has grown late, and I have185301:44:04.920 --> 01:44:09.640
grown very weary. I do apologize if I've not been185401:44:09.720 --> 01:44:14.920
the company you're used to. I'm trying my best, as185501:44:15.239 --> 01:44:20.600
is anyone out there, just trying to make it through.185601:44:20.680 --> 01:44:27.239
One more night, one more tick of the clock, as185701:44:27.279 --> 01:44:36.119
it goes on and on, just waiting and hoping for185801:44:36.199 --> 01:44:38.039
the rising suns.185901:44:41.800 --> 01:44:53.960
Speaking from London, the Black Museum re positive death. Yes,186001:44:54.000 --> 01:44:56.159
here in the grim stone structure on the Thames, which186101:44:56.159 --> 01:44:59.479
houses gone in the yard is a wareuse of homicide.186201:45:00.159 --> 01:45:05.960
Where everyday objects, a dictionaries, stenographer's notebook, a clothes hanger,186301:45:06.960 --> 01:45:09.000
all are touched by murder.186401:45:14.199 --> 01:45:15.039
Here's a post gun.186501:45:15.640 --> 01:45:18.720
It's a familiar object, slightly soiled in its passage to186601:45:18.840 --> 01:45:23.000
the Mayle's usual cancelation over the stamp norder addressed when any.186701:45:22.800 --> 01:45:25.079
Saint Paul's Road, London, The.186801:45:25.119 --> 01:45:29.680
Message yes on the message side of drawing rather well done.186901:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.920
The rising sun.187001:45:32.760 --> 01:45:37.000
Rather a conventional representation, isn't it Ardant, Yes, sir, conventional,187101:45:37.159 --> 01:45:39.720
still a rather unconventional matter.187201:45:40.279 --> 01:45:45.199
Murder, Yes, yes, it is unconventional. In his ardent, I've187301:45:45.239 --> 01:45:48.479
often wondered why they help so many executions at sunrise?187401:45:48.920 --> 01:45:51.319
Why they end lives at the beginning of the day.187501:45:54.640 --> 01:45:57.840
Anyway, that postcard today with a rising sun on it187601:45:58.960 --> 01:46:00.079
can be seen among the other.187701:46:00.039 --> 01:46:11.239
Their exhibits in the Black Museum.187801:46:11.279 --> 01:46:14.000
From the Annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the187901:46:14.039 --> 01:46:17.199
London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the188001:46:17.279 --> 01:46:20.560
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards.188101:46:20.239 --> 01:46:24.439
Gallery of Death, a Black Museum.188201:46:24.479 --> 01:46:27.520
In just a moment, you will hear the Black Museum188301:46:27.720 --> 01:46:29.079
starring awesome.188401:46:29.199 --> 01:46:32.199
Well, now the.188501:46:32.199 --> 01:46:35.079
Black Museum starring awesome.188601:46:35.239 --> 01:46:55.880
Well, here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland.188701:46:55.399 --> 01:46:57.119
Yards, Museum of Murder.188801:46:58.399 --> 01:47:02.399
Yes, here lies death thereforem swift, a slow, merciful of188901:47:02.479 --> 01:47:06.520
cruel death this year, laid out, remembered in detail, and189001:47:07.279 --> 01:47:15.640
perhaps waiting to strike again. He's a typewriter, Yes, worthy189101:47:15.680 --> 01:47:19.439
of the Black Museum. Definitely, the criminal care, the vicious189201:47:19.479 --> 01:47:22.640
planning that went into its use till a person who189301:47:22.640 --> 01:47:26.880
received the letters written on this machine. In desperation, took189401:47:26.880 --> 01:47:31.720
her own life. Here's a Triald's toy, tiny metal aeroplane.189501:47:32.439 --> 01:47:36.840
It's rusty in places. Propeller didn't turn anymore, but there189601:47:36.840 --> 01:47:40.119
were fingerprints on this. They placed a killer at the189701:47:40.159 --> 01:47:44.960
scene of the crime for which he was hanged. Now189801:47:45.239 --> 01:47:49.319
we are postcards. The postcard with its drawing of a189901:47:49.399 --> 01:47:53.560
rising sun. It's clear at once that a skilled hand190001:47:53.680 --> 01:47:55.880
drew this tiny picture. In this case, many things were190101:47:55.920 --> 01:47:58.960
clear almost at once, and conclusions were drawn.190201:47:59.399 --> 01:48:02.159
However, that, of course, is the story, the story which.190301:48:02.000 --> 01:48:05.680
Begins for us as Alfie Vine and his elderly mother190401:48:05.800 --> 01:48:08.359
turned into the entrance of twenty nine sent Fall's Road.190501:48:08.720 --> 01:48:13.039
London, Healthy. I refuse to go as tet fur.190601:48:13.159 --> 01:48:15.079
Then you've told me what this is all about.190701:48:15.359 --> 01:48:18.239
I'm surprising you. Mums. Are you come all this way?190801:48:18.279 --> 01:48:19.439
You're going to spoil it all now?190901:48:19.680 --> 01:48:21.800
I'm not set for to this house until you stop191001:48:21.840 --> 01:48:22.680
all this mystery.191101:48:22.760 --> 01:48:25.720
Om moms, Well this is where I've got my rooms.191201:48:26.359 --> 01:48:29.680
You're living here, twenty nine sports.191301:48:29.920 --> 01:48:34.680
You know the address rather dirty? My place is all right,191401:48:35.199 --> 01:48:37.039
It's only the outside and it's key.191501:48:37.439 --> 01:48:38.479
Elfie.191601:48:38.720 --> 01:48:41.680
You've not wanted to show me this before. I want191701:48:41.720 --> 01:48:43.800
to show you the girl who's waiting upstairs.191801:48:43.920 --> 01:48:46.199
Hethy you haven't gone and got married.191901:48:46.239 --> 01:48:48.479
Not yet, mums, but we're planning, so I want you192001:48:48.520 --> 01:48:49.119
to meet her.192101:48:49.439 --> 01:48:50.039
All right?192201:48:50.520 --> 01:48:51.039
Are going?192301:48:53.560 --> 01:48:57.000
They will him the shabby young man, the rusty, black clad,192401:48:57.079 --> 01:49:00.880
gray haired woman. They climbed the stairs. One flied, only192501:49:00.920 --> 01:49:02.920
only one, but enough for missus Vine to see the.192601:49:02.880 --> 01:49:06.279
Scabby walls to the dirty staireil and tidy.192701:49:07.680 --> 01:49:09.640
Half had placed his key in the lock and turned192801:49:09.680 --> 01:49:12.760
it over. The door. Light from the window revealed a192901:49:12.800 --> 01:49:14.760
single room and washed.193001:49:21.800 --> 01:49:24.720
The scream was the young lady on the bed, clad193101:49:24.760 --> 01:49:28.119
in the remnants of a nightgown. The gown, the sheets,193201:49:28.159 --> 01:49:34.199
the pillow were bloodstained. Why wouldn't they be? Young lady's193301:49:34.239 --> 01:49:39.800
head had been severed from her body. His mother given193401:49:39.840 --> 01:49:42.000
her the caravan. Neighbor HELFI find some of the police.193501:49:42.760 --> 01:49:45.880
Shortly thereafter he faced Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross of193601:49:45.960 --> 01:49:47.640
the CID Scotland.193701:49:47.239 --> 01:49:50.520
Yard, Tobias buying that this Ellis Cortland was must we193801:49:50.600 --> 01:49:51.920
say more than a fiancee to you?193901:49:52.239 --> 01:49:52.960
We was married.194001:49:53.640 --> 01:49:55.119
I didn't want my mother to think we're going and194101:49:55.159 --> 01:49:56.960
done it without our knowing, so we planned to do194201:49:57.039 --> 01:49:58.399
it over again after month's better.194301:49:59.399 --> 01:50:00.319
Who were your night?194401:50:00.399 --> 01:50:03.760
Fine? Working? Oh you can check on the postal clok?194501:50:03.920 --> 01:50:07.520
Not you where chrring cross substation? I'll check that started.194601:50:08.239 --> 01:50:11.000
Of course you work. Night's a lot fine. It's a194701:50:11.159 --> 01:50:14.319
split scheduled inspector two or three times, sometimes more a week.194801:50:15.560 --> 01:50:17.079
You don't think, I don't, Edie interview.194901:50:17.319 --> 01:50:20.119
We're not thinking anything yet, not until we find out195001:50:20.159 --> 01:50:22.319
from the lab exactly when she died.195101:50:22.800 --> 01:50:26.279
Poor Alice. She didn't have much of a life, nothing195201:50:26.359 --> 01:50:26.840
to depend on.195301:50:27.000 --> 01:50:29.199
Two she met me? What did she do at night195401:50:29.359 --> 01:50:30.159
while you were working?195501:50:30.800 --> 01:50:31.479
I never asked?195601:50:32.159 --> 01:50:35.159
We trusted each other, we did I see sarteant I195701:50:35.239 --> 01:50:37.640
want the neighborhood jets back to a skeptical You could195801:50:37.640 --> 01:50:39.560
hear in his voice the story was hard, to say195901:50:39.600 --> 01:50:39.960
the least.196001:50:40.760 --> 01:50:43.760
It became a trifle more art one search and cross reported.196101:50:44.600 --> 01:50:47.239
Then you are all right every bar in the district,196201:50:47.439 --> 01:50:50.640
but not as Alice vine. In most places it was196301:50:50.840 --> 01:50:52.880
daisy coming aspector understood.196401:50:53.600 --> 01:50:54.399
Came as no surprise.196501:50:54.439 --> 01:50:57.920
Therefore, and a frightened little man, a mighty shore ship's196601:50:58.000 --> 01:50:59.960
cook on leave turned up.196701:51:01.079 --> 01:51:03.760
Yes, sir, I knew Daisy. But I wasn't with her196801:51:03.760 --> 01:51:06.680
Wednesday night, no, sir. Not then when did you see196901:51:06.720 --> 01:51:07.119
her last?197001:51:07.399 --> 01:51:11.840
That was Tuesday night, inspector, And before that Monday and Sunday,197101:51:11.880 --> 01:51:14.640
do sir? We had dates, Daisy and me whenever.197201:51:14.439 --> 01:51:17.600
I was ashore, always had a few drinks together at197301:51:17.640 --> 01:51:21.000
the Orc, the Rising Sun, places like that along Saint197401:51:21.039 --> 01:51:21.640
Paul's Road.197501:51:22.439 --> 01:51:25.039
Not Wednesday night, no, sir. Not the night she got197601:51:25.039 --> 01:51:28.399
herself killed, No, sir, Why not? She had a date197701:51:28.439 --> 01:51:32.479
with somebody else? I saw, sir in the Rising Sun?197801:51:32.840 --> 01:51:33.399
I saw them.197901:51:34.119 --> 01:51:38.079
Were you jealous? No, sir. I was with Daisy's friend Martie.198001:51:38.560 --> 01:51:38.760
Good.198101:51:38.800 --> 01:51:39.199
Look at you?198201:51:39.600 --> 01:51:42.000
Can you describe the men Daisy was with? W had198301:51:42.000 --> 01:51:42.560
a look at him?198401:51:42.600 --> 01:51:43.760
I I believe I could.198501:51:43.960 --> 01:51:46.000
Could you pick him out of a group? What might sir?198601:51:46.439 --> 01:51:53.479
I would try for you, Inspector, I'd really try. And198701:51:53.680 --> 01:51:55.479
that step forward is about to be made in the198801:51:55.560 --> 01:51:58.199
kiss the ships could gives.198901:51:58.039 --> 01:52:02.159
His description not very big, slim, like too shabby, but199001:52:02.520 --> 01:52:06.239
in a gent too kind of way, about thirty years old,199101:52:06.720 --> 01:52:10.000
always totally love with a pencil kind of fellow can.199201:52:09.960 --> 01:52:11.520
Always become a cheer description.199301:52:12.239 --> 01:52:15.439
Not much to go on, but a starts again the199401:52:15.520 --> 01:52:18.920
canvases covered the area, and now the various bomb hates199501:52:18.920 --> 01:52:21.720
and tavern keepers remembered a man like that, remembered seeing199601:52:21.720 --> 01:52:22.119
a man.199701:52:22.039 --> 01:52:24.439
Like that with Daisy alias Alice.199801:52:25.239 --> 01:52:28.199
The girl literally lost her hint. However, they went off199901:52:28.199 --> 01:52:29.560
further traces of the man in question.200001:52:29.680 --> 01:52:31.880
Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross went back to the bedroom200101:52:31.880 --> 01:52:32.800
in Saint Paul's Road.200201:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.880
All right, Sartant, with a fine tooth comb the whole200301:52:35.920 --> 01:52:37.359
room down to the base ports and.200401:52:37.520 --> 01:52:38.640
Behind them if necessary.200501:52:39.520 --> 01:52:41.840
The detectives took the toddy little room of pirates.200601:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.800
The bed was dismantled, the winters case unrolled, the washtatons200701:52:45.840 --> 01:52:49.239
piping weep explored, the buro wasn't besty, and the drawers200801:52:49.239 --> 01:52:51.640
were fulled up, their contents tossed on the bed.200901:52:53.319 --> 01:52:56.439
Hello, here's something, inspector.201001:52:56.479 --> 01:53:00.840
Postcard I see post marked the day before told in201101:53:00.880 --> 01:53:03.520
the baggaries draw between the bank board and the bottom.201201:53:03.920 --> 01:53:04.359
Interesting.201301:53:04.960 --> 01:53:07.239
What do you make of that drawing, Sarteant, It looks201401:53:07.279 --> 01:53:10.319
like they can't flag to me, I don't know if201501:53:10.359 --> 01:53:12.159
any Javinese eating.201601:53:11.960 --> 01:53:17.560
Place nas victim he Daisy meet me at age fifteen201701:53:17.640 --> 01:53:17.920
at them.201801:53:18.800 --> 01:53:20.479
Whatever the picture means, it's a.201901:53:20.520 --> 01:53:21.760
Rising sun, isn't its artant?202001:53:22.000 --> 01:53:24.880
And there is a rising son well that show fellers202101:53:24.880 --> 01:53:28.840
who are on Wednesday night rather well drawn, almost a skilled.202201:53:28.520 --> 01:53:32.760
Hand an artist maybe maybe possibly the killer as well.202301:53:33.960 --> 01:53:35.880
Right back to work, Sarteant. There may be a few202401:53:35.960 --> 01:53:40.000
more little messages like this. They found two more hidden202501:53:40.039 --> 01:53:43.039
in the recesses at the back of the bureau. That202601:53:43.239 --> 01:53:45.239
was all. It's one thousand to one shots artant, But202701:53:45.359 --> 01:53:47.000
we'll try publishing these in the papers.202801:53:47.399 --> 01:53:50.359
Someone may recognize the handwriting or the sketches, more likely202901:53:50.479 --> 01:53:51.920
the sketches than someone did.203001:54:04.439 --> 01:54:17.159
Hmm, Hello, Larry, this is May May.203101:54:17.720 --> 01:54:19.560
It's wonderful, is it Larry?203201:54:21.079 --> 01:54:21.199
Then?203301:54:21.439 --> 01:54:24.279
Why hadn't I heard from you in weeks after we203401:54:24.399 --> 01:54:27.039
had a quart of beery? I thought a certain beautiful203501:54:27.119 --> 01:54:29.960
mom was pretty wellfome with a certain ard I should be.203601:54:30.199 --> 01:54:31.840
But you're not, Larry.203701:54:32.720 --> 01:54:34.760
Have you seen today's newspapers?203801:54:35.720 --> 01:54:37.119
Why? It's quite simple.203901:54:37.880 --> 01:54:42.159
A girl you've been sending postcards too, was murdered Wednesday night.204001:54:44.159 --> 01:54:44.520
How do know?204101:54:44.560 --> 01:54:45.359
I sent her cards?204201:54:46.039 --> 01:54:47.399
Then in the paper with Jowins.204301:54:47.840 --> 01:54:52.079
I know yours time, even in the past, must.204401:54:51.960 --> 01:54:54.640
Be I guess I'm not Larry.204501:54:55.319 --> 01:54:58.239
The police want to know who sent those cards.204601:54:58.279 --> 01:54:59.880
Hey, will you believe me when I know I had204701:54:59.920 --> 01:55:00.520
a anyone?204801:55:00.800 --> 01:55:04.079
I believe you, I know you know for all times sake?204901:55:04.119 --> 01:55:05.359
Will you help me?205001:55:06.800 --> 01:55:09.920
I'm in trouble, may What do you want me to do?205101:55:10.600 --> 01:55:13.319
Anyone asks you, anyone at all when you say we205201:55:13.479 --> 01:55:16.279
went together from ten thirty on on Wednesday.205301:55:16.000 --> 01:55:17.439
Night for her?205401:55:19.239 --> 01:55:21.720
Then you went to ask court Lam at King's Cross?205501:55:22.119 --> 01:55:24.600
Will where you with her?205601:55:27.439 --> 01:55:27.479
No?205701:55:28.359 --> 01:55:28.880
Not anymore?205801:55:28.920 --> 01:55:34.760
I suppose crise, remember May please thirty of court King's Cross?205901:55:39.800 --> 01:55:42.159
Many Hester artist father? What's more?206001:55:42.279 --> 01:55:45.199
Time in love with artist named Larry, and now has206101:55:45.319 --> 01:55:48.439
to provide an alibi. In fact, I asked to provide206201:55:48.439 --> 01:55:52.560
an alibi which might never be needed. May Haster lived206301:55:52.560 --> 01:55:56.279
with what she knew for a day or so, and then, reluctantly,206401:55:56.439 --> 01:55:58.760
her feet and her conscience took her to an office206501:55:59.279 --> 01:56:00.239
in the old building.206601:56:00.079 --> 01:56:03.319
On the Thames. I understand your position, miss sister. I'm206701:56:03.359 --> 01:56:04.399
grateful you came to see me.206801:56:04.520 --> 01:56:07.039
I don't believe you children inspect Herbert.206901:56:08.039 --> 01:56:10.199
As long as you're looking for him, you won't be207001:56:10.239 --> 01:56:11.520
looking for the right person.207101:56:11.640 --> 01:56:16.239
William. That's one way of saying it, Miss Hester. I207201:56:16.359 --> 01:56:20.680
think you'd better give me his name. It's Mary Duncan.207301:56:21.920 --> 01:56:22.479
You know where he.207401:56:22.520 --> 01:56:23.159
Lives at present?207501:56:26.960 --> 01:56:30.920
May Hester you She gave Inspector Wood an address on London,207601:56:30.960 --> 01:56:33.479
the Western Edge. She left the environs of Scotland Yard.207701:56:34.560 --> 01:56:37.800
So did Inspector Wood company with Sergeant Cross.207801:56:41.720 --> 01:56:45.520
Mister Duncan. Yes, I'm Duncan, I'm Inspector Wood.207901:56:45.640 --> 01:56:47.199
Ceid Microdens.208001:56:47.520 --> 01:56:50.439
This is hard and Cross. Will you come in, gentlemen, no,208101:56:50.600 --> 01:56:53.239
thank you, I'm afraid mister Duncan. We have to ask208201:56:53.319 --> 01:56:55.680
you to come out with us. We need to ask208301:56:55.720 --> 01:56:57.000
you a few questions.208401:56:57.079 --> 01:56:59.640
And it'll be more convenient down at the yard.208501:57:02.319 --> 01:57:02.760
Or to day.208601:57:02.840 --> 01:57:06.479
The post god a little picture of the rising sun208701:57:06.560 --> 01:57:11.199
on It is part of the exhibits in the Black Museum.208801:57:16.000 --> 01:57:18.720
In just a moment we will continue with a Black208901:57:18.920 --> 01:58:30.880
Museum starring Arson Wells. And now we continue with the209001:58:31.039 --> 01:58:34.560
Black Museum starring Awesome well.209101:58:42.119 --> 01:58:44.159
Larry Duncan was held on suspicion of murder.209201:58:45.319 --> 01:58:49.439
The inspector was convinced of his guilt. Duncan protested his innocence.209301:58:50.680 --> 01:58:53.680
The family called in a famous defender, but despite the209401:58:53.760 --> 01:58:56.159
presence in the case of Sir John Gripp, Scotland Yard209501:58:56.319 --> 01:58:59.399
charged Larry Duncan with the murder of Alice Vine Hailias209601:58:59.479 --> 01:59:02.800
Daisy comes and preparations for the trial went forward.209701:59:03.920 --> 01:59:10.880
Sir John conferred with Larry, how are.209801:59:10.880 --> 01:59:11.359
You my boy?209901:59:11.960 --> 01:59:12.199
Really?210001:59:12.279 --> 01:59:12.600
Will sir?210101:59:12.680 --> 01:59:14.800
That does my prison para.210201:59:14.720 --> 01:59:18.520
Shows yes, not yet. I like your confidence, Harry. I210301:59:18.600 --> 01:59:21.359
didn't kill the woman, Sir. However, you were seeing with210401:59:21.520 --> 01:59:24.880
her that night a man. I said that I believe210501:59:24.960 --> 01:59:27.000
who had been with her the three nights previous. So210601:59:27.119 --> 01:59:29.399
you're both together in the rising gun.210701:59:29.600 --> 01:59:33.399
That's why I asked may to say we've been together210801:59:33.479 --> 01:59:34.640
after ten thirty that night.210901:59:34.880 --> 01:59:38.279
Well, they have another witness, a tram conductor who stakes211001:59:38.319 --> 01:59:40.319
you saw you leave that house at five in the morning.211101:59:40.439 --> 01:59:43.840
He couldn't have seen me. I take your word, but211201:59:44.039 --> 01:59:47.000
will a jury after that false alibi? I'll have to211301:59:47.039 --> 01:59:47.960
take my chances on that.211401:59:48.079 --> 01:59:48.399
I guess.211501:59:48.920 --> 01:59:53.760
Well, we'll see a little further investigation may bring a211601:59:53.840 --> 01:59:55.159
few more facts to light.211702:00:02.159 --> 02:00:06.199
Sir John Grips proceeded towards a few more effects. He211802:00:06.279 --> 02:00:07.439
kept me lying very quiet.211902:00:08.359 --> 02:00:10.600
My uncle had tried itself to he reveal his strategy212002:00:11.079 --> 02:00:14.439
the ever expected to produce. In fact, the first move212102:00:14.520 --> 02:00:17.439
came sometime after Inspector Wood and Sergeant Cross had placed212202:00:17.479 --> 02:00:20.680
the police case on the record. The tram conductor won212302:00:20.840 --> 02:00:23.399
Charles Powers, was on the witness stand and I was.212402:00:23.399 --> 02:00:26.199
Certain, mister Powers, that the prisoner in the dark is212502:00:26.239 --> 02:00:28.560
the man who saw Leading twenty nine sent Paul's road212602:00:28.640 --> 02:00:29.079
that morning.212702:00:29.479 --> 02:00:31.039
I am answered positive.212802:00:31.680 --> 02:00:35.640
Oh, mister Boys Walks, he has a kind of a212902:00:35.880 --> 02:00:37.159
free swing in stride.213002:00:37.319 --> 02:00:37.600
Thank you.213102:00:38.920 --> 02:00:45.159
You may cross exact, mister Powers. Let me refresh my memory.213202:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.960
You have said the weather that tragic morning was Risley. Yeah,213302:00:49.079 --> 02:00:52.159
I did say so, it was, thank you, And that.213402:00:52.239 --> 02:00:54.119
You saw the man quite clearly by the light of213502:00:54.159 --> 02:00:57.399
an ampost. Yes, it's correct. And father that you.213602:00:57.560 --> 02:00:59.920
Heard a church clock in the vicinity stripe find you,213702:01:00.279 --> 02:01:04.199
I did well. I offer him visions as the rebuttal213802:01:04.239 --> 02:01:07.359
of this man's testimony the reports Julia tested of the213902:01:07.439 --> 02:01:11.399
electric light company servicing that district, which contains the record214002:01:11.479 --> 02:01:13.439
that the street lights were extinguished that.214102:01:13.560 --> 02:01:17.560
Morning at four thirty seven a m. This man could214202:01:17.640 --> 02:01:19.720
not have seen anyone by the night of a street lap.214302:01:22.880 --> 02:01:25.760
And if it pleased the court, I have heard.214402:01:25.640 --> 02:01:27.800
That Julie ad tested the records of the London weather214502:01:27.920 --> 02:01:31.560
euro not one drop of rain fell anywhere in London214602:01:31.640 --> 02:01:32.159
that morning.214702:01:32.640 --> 02:01:36.560
I thank forever a skilled lawyer in actions of finding214802:01:36.640 --> 02:01:39.119
to watch, isn't it? Here was a witness and important214902:01:39.119 --> 02:01:42.600
which is completely demolished, his facts called in question, and215002:01:42.680 --> 02:01:46.800
his responsibility to under pieces the prosecution suffered from them.215102:01:46.880 --> 02:01:50.399
Naturally they attempted to regain their loss with Marty Shaw,215202:01:50.560 --> 02:01:51.319
the ship's cook.215302:01:51.880 --> 02:01:56.039
In conclusion, mister Shaw, you identified the prisoner as the215402:01:56.159 --> 02:01:58.439
man who was with the victim, the knight of the murder.215502:01:58.800 --> 02:02:05.880
I ditcher, thank you your witness. Mister Shaw. Were you215602:02:06.319 --> 02:02:08.479
frightened when you heard the Miss Cummings death?215702:02:08.840 --> 02:02:09.000
Now?215802:02:09.800 --> 02:02:11.520
Why should not? Why shouldn't you be?215902:02:12.720 --> 02:02:16.199
After all, mister Shaw, by your own testimony, you spent Sunday,216002:02:16.199 --> 02:02:18.079
Monday and Tuesday evenings with miss Cummings.216102:02:18.880 --> 02:02:23.159
She was killed on Wednesday's killed on Wednesday? Why shouldn't216202:02:23.159 --> 02:02:25.840
you have been frightened? You mean because almost the next216302:02:25.960 --> 02:02:28.680
man to the prisoner, next man to the murderer. Perhaps216402:02:29.319 --> 02:02:32.720
not the next man to the prisoner. Or you realize,216502:02:32.720 --> 02:02:35.920
didn't you that your position might turn out to be unpleasant? Yes, sir,216602:02:36.199 --> 02:02:40.000
I guess, And you discuss the matter with another lady216702:02:40.079 --> 02:02:44.520
friend of the deceased. What forged nothing, nothing at all,216802:02:45.680 --> 02:02:48.600
except perhaps that from this woman you obtained a detailed216902:02:48.680 --> 02:02:52.079
description of a certain friend of Miss Cummings, and from217002:02:52.119 --> 02:02:56.600
that description you picked up the prisoner at an identification parade. Well,217102:02:56.760 --> 02:03:01.479
mister Shaw, answer me, speak of mister Shaw at judged217202:03:01.520 --> 02:03:02.760
that Judy wanted to hear your answer.217302:03:02.920 --> 02:03:06.520
So Ryan, yes, sir, I did that.217402:03:06.880 --> 02:03:18.560
Thank you, mister Shaw. That is all another witness.217502:03:18.640 --> 02:03:23.560
His testament is discredited, his motives called in question the217602:03:23.640 --> 02:03:27.840
propriety of his identification. More than call in question. The217702:03:27.920 --> 02:03:30.439
quadroom crowd was making bets as it filed out. After217802:03:30.479 --> 02:03:33.000
the first day, the odds were swinging away from the217902:03:33.039 --> 02:03:35.680
prosecution and toward the young man who sat quietly in218002:03:35.760 --> 02:03:37.600
the prisoner's dark sketching.218102:03:38.520 --> 02:03:41.560
Sketching. After all, Larry Duncan.218202:03:41.359 --> 02:03:43.960
Was an artist, gernardist wants to keep the record of218302:03:44.039 --> 02:03:47.520
his experiences, even when his life hangsh the balance.218402:03:53.319 --> 02:03:59.600
Next day, the prosecution called may Hester, Miss Hester.218502:04:00.239 --> 02:04:04.840
And how did you learn of this crime in the newspapers?218602:04:05.239 --> 02:04:07.640
And how did you first connect the prisoner with it218702:04:08.119 --> 02:04:08.800
in your mind?218802:04:09.439 --> 02:04:12.520
Well, when I saw the postcard in the paper, the218902:04:12.600 --> 02:04:15.680
one with a drawing on it, it was Larry's, mister219002:04:15.840 --> 02:04:16.760
Duncan's style.219102:04:16.960 --> 02:04:17.840
I recognized it.219202:04:18.159 --> 02:04:18.720
What did you do?219302:04:19.560 --> 02:04:20.720
I called him on the phone.219402:04:21.000 --> 02:04:24.600
What happened? He asked me to give.219502:04:24.520 --> 02:04:26.720
Him an alibi, a false aliba.219602:04:27.159 --> 02:04:30.600
Yes, he wanted me to say that I've been with219702:04:30.680 --> 02:04:32.560
him that night. And what did you do?219802:04:33.119 --> 02:04:33.680
I agreed?219902:04:34.520 --> 02:04:37.359
Then I thought it over and I went to the police.220002:04:37.840 --> 02:04:43.800
Anywhere was yesterday? And thank you cross examin Miss Hester.220102:04:44.840 --> 02:04:47.960
Why did you go to the police. Well, I was220202:04:48.000 --> 02:04:51.239
afraid outpost. Had you been in love with mister Duncan,220302:04:51.560 --> 02:04:54.000
I'm that is yes?220402:04:54.520 --> 02:04:54.880
Uh huh?220502:04:56.000 --> 02:04:57.560
Was he in love with you?220602:04:58.319 --> 02:04:58.840
I thought so.220702:05:00.000 --> 02:05:02.760
I heard of an emotion called jealousy, Miss Hester.220802:05:03.319 --> 02:05:03.880
He was over.220902:05:04.840 --> 02:05:06.000
I knows to be jealous.221002:05:06.199 --> 02:05:09.319
I submit, Miss Hester, that when you thought it over,221102:05:09.920 --> 02:05:12.359
when you realized that mister Duncan had apparently gone to221202:05:12.439 --> 02:05:14.439
this woman after his protestations to.221302:05:14.479 --> 02:05:18.279
You, that you were not afraid that you were jealous221402:05:18.359 --> 02:05:21.119
enough to want revenge? Yes, not so, that's not you221502:05:21.239 --> 02:05:24.520
were afraid of what that this man might try to221602:05:24.680 --> 02:05:30.720
murder you. No, of course not, said mister Duncancan. Wasn't side,221702:05:34.239 --> 02:05:37.960
Miss Hester? When mister Duncan asked you for the alibi.221802:05:38.159 --> 02:05:41.640
Did you know the time of the madder? No? When221902:05:41.840 --> 02:05:45.239
did you learn of it? Yeah? In the medical testimony.222002:05:45.760 --> 02:05:47.720
Did the question of the time of the death enter222102:05:47.800 --> 02:05:50.039
your mind when you went to the police. No, no,222202:05:50.159 --> 02:05:52.920
of course not. I asked you again, Missiston. Can you222302:05:53.039 --> 02:05:55.920
say you were motivated only by fear and not by222402:05:56.000 --> 02:05:56.880
jealousy or revenge?222502:05:57.279 --> 02:05:57.479
Yes?222602:05:58.039 --> 02:06:02.600
Yes, I was only afraid afraid of what I was afraid, well,222702:06:02.680 --> 02:06:05.399
really hadn't done an' And I.222802:06:06.560 --> 02:06:13.000
Said, I'm like you, and you were willing to sacrifice222902:06:13.039 --> 02:06:16.960
the reputation, perhaps even the life of the man you loved.223002:06:17.279 --> 02:06:19.760
Because you were afraid to get it to the objection223102:06:19.880 --> 02:06:23.680
of Lord irrelevant, incompetent and imma tearing.223202:06:23.920 --> 02:06:28.479
I withdraw the question. That is all, miss Hester, Thank223302:06:28.600 --> 02:06:33.239
you very much. Thereafter, the prosecution rested their case on223402:06:33.399 --> 02:06:36.159
what was left of it. So John call Larry Duncan223502:06:36.199 --> 02:06:39.520
as his first words for the defense, destiny was short.223602:06:39.960 --> 02:06:42.359
I didn't kill her. I left with the rising sun223702:06:42.479 --> 02:06:45.439
that night around with like I didn't. Nor could the223802:06:45.479 --> 02:06:47.239
Crowns prosecutor shake his statement.223902:06:48.359 --> 02:06:51.640
Next and last witness of the defense one David Wallace,224002:06:52.000 --> 02:06:53.800
a ticket agent on a suburban railroad.224102:06:54.039 --> 02:06:59.119
Mister Wallace. What is your address twenty six Saint Paul's Road?224202:06:59.560 --> 02:07:01.640
What I When did you leave your house the morning224302:07:01.760 --> 02:07:06.000
after this killing? My regular time, sir, five minutes to five.224402:07:07.680 --> 02:07:09.720
Did you see anyone that morning?224502:07:10.000 --> 02:07:13.039
Yes, sir, a man going in the opposite direction. Only224602:07:13.359 --> 02:07:17.000
one man, only one, sir? Are you conscious that you224702:07:17.119 --> 02:07:19.439
have a rather free swinging stride?224802:07:19.600 --> 02:07:20.960
Why do it on purpose?224902:07:21.520 --> 02:07:23.800
It's good for you in the morning, with the provision225002:07:23.800 --> 02:07:26.000
of the plot, I request a small demonstration.225102:07:26.319 --> 02:07:28.279
Whocy stepped down.225202:07:28.119 --> 02:07:32.239
A moment, mister Wallace, please, by sir, no len just225302:07:32.359 --> 02:07:33.560
jumping up the collar of your coat.225402:07:34.279 --> 02:07:34.520
Thank you?225502:07:35.359 --> 02:07:35.960
Put on your hat?225602:07:36.000 --> 02:07:37.039
Will you thank you?225702:07:38.000 --> 02:07:38.039
No?225802:07:39.199 --> 02:07:41.760
Will you walk please as you do in the mornings.225902:07:42.560 --> 02:07:47.000
Just out brief deponal please, likeness.226002:07:48.800 --> 02:07:53.119
Some single a free swinging stride. It was established that226102:07:53.159 --> 02:07:56.000
there was a man on proper decent business walkings and226202:07:56.079 --> 02:07:59.439
Paul's Road at five that morning. The prosecution had no226302:07:59.560 --> 02:08:10.359
crossing examination for mister Wallace. The Crown summed up Sir226402:08:10.439 --> 02:08:14.039
John's sund up. The judge's charge was brief and to226502:08:14.119 --> 02:08:14.760
the point.226602:08:15.520 --> 02:08:19.640
In cases serciousness. If there is any reasonable doubt in226702:08:19.720 --> 02:08:23.399
your buyings, gentlemen of the journey, it is incumbent on226802:08:23.520 --> 02:08:27.359
you to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt.226902:08:31.000 --> 02:08:33.039
And he thirty the same evening that jury fire back227002:08:33.039 --> 02:08:36.960
into the box. The clerk solemnly intoned the old question,227102:08:38.199 --> 02:08:39.319
have you reached a verdict?227202:08:40.239 --> 02:08:44.760
We have? Again, the clerk spoke, what is your verdict?227302:08:45.520 --> 02:08:58.279
We find the accused not guilty? Today? That postcard, whatever227402:08:58.319 --> 02:09:02.279
it may mean, with its rising sun propose, isn't a227502:09:02.279 --> 02:09:04.279
place of honor the Black Museum.227602:09:09.960 --> 02:09:14.119
Well, my dear, it appears another night has come to227702:09:14.199 --> 02:09:19.199
a close. Perhaps the next one will be different, I227802:09:19.319 --> 02:09:22.199
sure hope. So all I know for certain is I227902:09:22.399 --> 02:09:26.359
hope to see you here again on a dark night228002:09:27.800 --> 02:09:35.000
when you feel not just lonely but alone. I'll be here,228102:09:36.039 --> 02:09:46.000
waiting quietly, with a smiling face and something chilly to share. Now,228202:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.279
even with my morose feelings, I have to say that228302:09:50.439 --> 02:09:53.920
as you head home, as you cross the bridge, as228402:09:54.039 --> 02:09:58.479
you go across that little river, as you march down228502:09:58.560 --> 02:10:03.279
the sidewalk almost home. Now, as you lay your head228602:10:03.319 --> 02:10:08.800
on your pillow, please I imploy take a moment and228702:10:08.960 --> 02:10:10.880
be thankful for what you have
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